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Percnostola arenarum

[edit] Identification

10 cm
Male

• Dark grey
• Black throat
• Black wing coverts fringed with white
  

Female

• Dark grey upperparts
• Black wing coverts fringed reddish-brown
• Underparts reddish-brown and white

[edit] Distribution

South America: found only in North-eastern Peru north of River Marañón (R. Morona to R. Nanay drainage)

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species described in 2002.

[edit] Habitat

Dry forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. BirdLife International

• List of references

[edit] External Links