Wednesday, January 11, 2017

FOREIGN BIRDS ON MY CANVAS ....MASKED WATER TYRANT

FOREIGN BIRDS ON MY CANVAS #20/525 ....MASKED WATER TYRANT ...[FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF MR. KAWSAR MOSTAFA ] WATERCOLOUR ... A4... 2015 ... The masked water tyrant (Fluvicola nengeta) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers.
It is found in its major range in eastern and southeastern Brazil in the caatinga and extreme eastern cerrado, and also Atlantic coastal regions; a second smaller disjunct range occurs on the Pacific side of South America in western Ecuador, and coastal border regions of northwest Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
14·5–15 cm. Plumage is mostly white, with contrasting black eyestripe, black wings and white-tipped black tail; back tinged brownish-grey; iris dark, bill .
Call a sharp “kirt!”, often given in flight; song a repeated, soft “dewdelewdel-dewdelewdel".

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