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Birding on Juan de Mena, Cordillera, Paraguay and the "New" Sporophila (1 Viewer)

I just want to share some info on the birding of my country, from which i see little info online

We did a quick travel with 4 people to Juan de Mena to see the swamps (Known as Esteros on the region) and some riverside woods, we where surprised of the high number of species represented

The highlights (And lifers, all of them) to me where the crested doradito, the strange-tailed tyrant and the just recently described by science Ibera seedeater (Sporophila iberaensis), of the last, i manage a somewhat reconocible photo and other member of the group did get a very good song recording. We did not only see this species, but see various individues (included a pair) and hear some more.

The complete list

1 Tataupa Tinamou Crypturellus tataupa (Heard only)
2 Southern Screamer Chauna torquata
2 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
5 Brazilian Teal Amazonetta brasiliensis
12 Wood Stork Mycteria americana
3 Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
1 Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
2 Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi
10 Great Egret Ardea alba
1 Snowy Egret Egretta thula
1 Striated Heron Butorides striata
1 Bare-faced Ibis Phimosus infuscatus
2 Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
1 Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
11 Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
4 Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
1 Long-winged Harrier Circus buffoni
2 Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis
1 Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris (Heard only)
1 Giant Wood-Rail Aramides ypecaha
1 Ash-throated Crake Mustelirallus albicollis
12 Limpkin Aramus guarauna
3 Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
6 Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana
1 Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis
4 Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
1 Picui Ground-Dove Columbina picui
1 White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi (Heard only)
1 Guira Cuckoo Guira guira (Heard only)
5 Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
1 Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
1 Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus
5 Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
1 Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona
3 Campo Flicker Colaptes campestris
1 Southern Caracara Caracara plancus
1 Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango
2 Nanday Parakeet Aratinga nenday
2 Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
1 Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus
3 Greater Thornbird Phacellodomus ruber
1 Chotoy Spinetail Schoeniophylax phryganophilus
4 Yellow-chinned Spinetail Certhiaxis cinnamomeus
3 Crested Doradito Pseudocolopteryx sclateri
1 Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
2 Large Elaenia Elaenia spectabilis
1 Streamer-tailed Tyrant Gubernetes yetapa
2 White-headed Marsh Tyrant Arundinicola leucocephala
2 Strange-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus risora
3 Cattle Tyrant Machetornis rixosa
3 Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
1 Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
7 Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
3 Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana
1 Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis (Heard only)
4 Brown-chested Martin Progne tapera
2 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
1 House Wren Troglodytes aedon
1 Thrush-like Wren Campylorhynchus turdinus (Heard only)
1 Black-capped Donacobius Donacobius atricapilla
1 Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas
1 Rufous-bellied Thrush Turdus rufiventris(Heard only)
1 Creamy-bellied Thrush Turdus amaurochalinus
3 Chalk-browed Mockingbird Mimus saturninus
2 Red-crested Cardinal Paroaria coronata
2 Yellow-billed Cardinal Paroaria capitata
8 Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca
2 Long-tailed Reed Finch Donacospiza albifrons
1 Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
2 Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch Emberizoides herbicola
2 Lesser Grass-Finch Emberizoides ypiranganus
6 Great Pampa-Finch Embernagra platensis
2 White-bellied Seedeater Sporophila leucoptera
1 Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch Sporophila angolensis
10 Rusty-collared Seedeater Sporophila collaris (included nesting pair)
1 Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
1 Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
1 Chopi Blackbird Gnorimopsar chopi
2 Scarlet-headed Blackbird Amblyramphus holosericeus
1 Unicolored Blackbird Agelasticus cyanopus
3 Grayish Baywing Agelaioides badius
1 Screaming Cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris
3 Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
1 Purple-throated Euphonia Euphonia chlorotica (Heard only)


10 Ibera Seedeater (undescribed form) Sporophila [undescribed form]
 

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