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Thryothorus pleurostictus

[edit] Identification

13.5 cm

• Rufous-brown upperparts
• Strong white supercillium
• Brown stripe through the eye
• White cheeks with black streeks
• White underparts
• Heavy black barring on the flanks and lower belly
• Wings and tail barred black
  

Immature birds are duller and underparts are lightly mottled with dusky brown.

[edit] Distribution

Central America: found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 7 subspecies:

• T. p. nisorius:

• Western Mexico (Morelos, Puebla and Michoacan)

• T. p. oaxacae:

• South-western Mexico (coastal central Guerrero to Oaxaca)

• T. p. acaciarum:

• Southern Mexico (Chiapas)

• T. p. oblitus:

• Pacific lowlands of eastern Chiapas to Guatemala and western El Salvador

• T. p. pleurostictus:

• Guatemala (Gualán region of Zacapa)

• T. p. lateralis:

• Lowlands of El Salvador and western Honduras

• T. p. ravus:

• Pacific lowlands of Nicaragua to north-western Costa Rica

[edit] Habitat

Lowlands and foothills up to 800 m in forest clearings; scrubby woods or more open woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

It builds a flask-shaped nest in the fork of a shrub or thorn tree. It has a long downward sloping entrance leading to a chamber lined with fine grasses, often in close proximity to a wasp nest. The 3-4 unspotted white or pale greenish-blue eggs are incubated by the female for approximately two weeks; the young fledge two weeks later.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects, spiders and small 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. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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