Unknown, Ilha Grande, Brasil (1 Viewer)

wintibird

André Weiss

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• Nov 9, 2018

• #1

I've seen this bird in october on Ilha Grande in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. The bird was on a big dead tree, inside the forest, together with a Picazuro Pigeon (the bigger bird on one of the pictures). It was an overcast, grey day, so the picture is not the best.
Can anyone help?

André

 

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THE_FERN

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Opus Editor

• Nov 9, 2018

• #2

wintibird said:

I've seen this bird in october on Ilha Grande in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. The bird was on a big dead tree, inside the forest, together with a Picazuro Pigeon (the bigger bird on one of the pictures). It was an overcast, grey day, so the picture is not the best.
Can anyone help?

André

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Looks to me like a piculet. According to this:

https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/occpic1/overview​

it should be ochre-collared piculet and indeed I believe I can see an ochre collar. However, this:

http://www.sr2.uerj.br/ceads/images/PDF/artigos/Alves_Maria8.pdf​

does not mention that species but only white-barred for the location. These two species [if they are species...] apparently interbreed. So it's one of these and which probably depends on your point of view.

 

Andy Adcock

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• Nov 9, 2018

• #3

More akin to Banded Barbet with that bill?

 

Motmot

Eduardo Amengual

• Nov 9, 2018

• #4

There are no barbets in that part of the world but yes, that's not a piculet bill. This is actually a female Swallow Tanager. Those tanagers have a very broadly based bill, barred flanks etc

 

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THE_FERN

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• Nov 9, 2018

• #5

Motmot said:

There are no barbets in that part of the world but yes, that's not a piculet bill. This is actually a female Swallow Tanager. Those tanagers have a very broadly based bill, barred flanks etc

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Perhaps you're right but it's unlike any female swallow tanager I've ever seen. I too thought it was a barbet when I first saw the pic but then realised there are none there.

 

Motmot

Eduardo Amengual

• Nov 9, 2018

• #6

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7550/15885774351_c56c44505a_o.jpg

A decent match

 

wintibird

André Weiss

Opus Editor

• Nov 10, 2018

• #7

Of course! Thanks guys.