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Female
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Masked
Tityra
Image by Lee Zieger
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These Masked Tityras were feeding young in a woodpecker hole just
above the road from Gomez Farias to Alta Cima in the El Cielo Biosphere
of Tamaulipas, Mexico. The male with the black eye ring would stand
guard while the female dropped off the small insects she picked up
foraging during April 2007.
The Masked Tityra behaves much like a woodpecker mimicking it’s flight
and using the woodpecker’s tree cavity for raising young. They live in
pairs or small groups at the edge of humid to semiarid forest, woodland, semi-open
areas, and plantations such as fruit trees. The Masked Tityra voice is a distinctive
buzz or fart-like calls. February 20, 1920 Bentsen Rio Grande State Park is
the only record of this species north of the Mexican border. The Masked Tityra
range is from Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil.
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