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Cattle tyrant

Machetornis rixosa

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Field Notes

Description:

•They eat parasitic arthropods on mammals (cleaning symbiosis).
•They spend most of the time on the ground.
•Their nests are made with sticks on the ground, but sometimes they use abandoned nests of rufous horneros.

Habitat:

Heavily degraded former forests, pastureland, open areas, parks
-I saw these birds in Foz do Iguaçu (PR, Brazil)

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Comments (1)
sandytrailslvr
wow. never seen one on the ground! I've only seen them in trees or on wires.

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Brazilian Birds - Aves Brasileiras
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Brazil Life
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PublishedApril 2, 2016

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