Suboscines

Volcan Baru

Cana Station

Two Black-hooded Antshrikes (Thamnophilus bridgesi)-These two males competed for song supremacy at Manuel Antonio (Costa Rica) for hours! This "battle of the bands" went on pretty much the entire day.

Machu Picchu

Cana Station

Here are several other calls of the beautiful Black-hooded Antshrike (Thamnophilus bridgesi) (Costa Rica).

Cajanuma

Cana Station

Masked Tityra (Tityra semifasciata) - This female makes the only type sound either sex seems to make! A washboard rubbed with a straw?

Parque Nacional del Manu

Punta Patiño

In this example a pair of Masked Tityras (Tityra semifasciata), who are nesting in a hole in a dead tree right outside our cabin at Cabinas el Bosque, Monteverde (Costa Rica), talk to each other, 6/17/99

Ixhuacan de los Reyes

Ranomafana National Park

The Common Tody Flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum) is a tiny yellow and black bird - as small as a "large hummingbird" according to my notes. This one is heard piping and trilling at La Fortuna, near Volca Arenal (Costa Rica).

Ferson Creek Fen

Rio Paca Station

Here is the characteristic call of a Common Tody Flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum), from the Arenal area (Costa Rica) (Black-striped Sparrow in the background).

Nelson Lake Forest Preserve

Milpe

A Yellow-margined Flycatcher (Tolmomyias assimilis) calls his high, thin call in the canopy at La Selva (Costa Rica), 11/16/98.

Point Reyes National Seashore

Machu Picchu

Tropical Kingbirds (Tyrannus melancholicus) are common residents of Costa Rica. Their range is apparently expanding northward, as more and more accounts of them come each summer from as far as Southern Canada. Here is a Tropical Kingbird's "whit" call, performed at the Arenal Lodge. His "whit" note seemed to counterpoint a Black-striped Sparrow's, which was also calling in the "whit" style, 6/15/99.