ML193596851
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Observation details
An amazing encounter with a singing individual. Easily imitated three part whistled song, two others heard only. We had just finished getting looks at the Long-tailed Tapaculo when we heard a WBAN singing nearby. We had to work very hard to see this bird. We tried for about 10 minutes coaxing the bird along the side of the slope to playback; it was pretty much entirely invisible as it hopped along the slope just a few meters below the road in thick brush. After about 15 minutes and 40 m of this we came to a flatter more open area. Nelson put the JBL a little farther on and we waited in between. Pretty soon it hopped up on a mossy horizontal branch and ran along it, and then hopped further on. At one point it was entirely in the open, paused just a second to sing its song, and then leaped into the undergrowth. Lifer! Bright rufous above, white breast, gray flanks.
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