| The large and striking Fasciated Antshrike is seen with some regularity by birders visiting central Panama. The rest of my birding group found the bird pictured below near the entrance of Pipeline Road while I was briefly separated from the group, but I hustled over in time to catch some of the show. This male Fasciated Antshrike was being unusually accomodating, hopping about and squawking madly but a few feet from the group. The reason for the bird's heedlessness became apparent a few moments later, when it came up with a rather large grasshopper in its bill, certainly a meal for which it was worth braving the gaze of a few birders! |
| Fasciated Antshrike is sexually dimorphic, the female having a lovely orange crown. I filmed the bird pictured below on Plantation Trail, at the base of Semaphore Hill, in January of 2007. This shot nicely illustrates the large bill of the Fasciated Antshrike, which clearly reminded the ornithologists who named the species (and the other antshrikes in this and related genera) of the unrelated shrike family. |
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