From Opus

Herpsilochmus parkeri

[edit] Identification

12 cm.
Male: Black crown and ocular streak

• Grey underparts
• Dark grey upperparts with dark mottling
• Blackish wings
• White tips to wing-coverts forming wing-bars and whitish edges to remiges
• Black tail with white outer feathers and large white tips on other rectrices
  

Female:

• Black crown heavily spotted white
• Postocular streak
• Ochraceous front
• Buffy eyebrow
• Dark buff throat
• Buff breast
• White lower belly
• Buffy-grey flanks
• Pale grey upperparts tinged buff on back
• Tail and wings much as in male.

[edit] Distribution

South America: found on the eastern slope of Andes of north-central Peru (San Martín)

[edit] Taxonomy

The first specimens were collected in northern Peru in 1983.^[2]

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Humid montane forest and savanna.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes invertebrates.

[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. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. BirdLife International

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