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Photo by Rogerio Araújo Dias
Serra da Mesa - Goias - Brazil

Geranospiza caerulescens

Identification

• Grey underparts with fine white bars
• Grey above
• Grey head
• Black and white barred, white tipped tail
• Long orange legs and feet
• Black talons
• Grey hooked bill

Distribution

Northern Mexico to northern Argentina and Brazil. Accidental to the United States with one record at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Forests, mangroves and swamps.

Behaviour

The diet includes insects, frogs, spiders, lizards, and snakes.

References

Wikipedia; Arthur Grosset

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