Tityra semifasciata (Spix 1825)

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

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