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Photo by paul47
Caraça, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 2011

Pachyramphus castaneus

[edit] Identification

• Cinnamon-rufous upperparts
• Pale cinnamon-buff underparts
• Chestnut crown
• Broad grey stripe from eye round back of neck
  

Sexes similar

[edit] Distribution

Photo by paul47
Caraça, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 2011

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 5 subspecies^[1]:

• P. c. amazonus:

• Lower Amazonian Brazil (eastern Amazonas and Pará)

• P. c. castaneus:

• South-eastern Brazil (Bahia and se Goiás) to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina

• P. c. intermedius:

• Tropical northern Venezuela (Falcón to Sucre and Monagas)

• P. c. parui:

• Tropical southern Venezuela (Cerro Parú in Amazonas)

• P. c. saturatus:

• Tropial south-eastern Colombia to eastern Ecuador, northern Peru and western Amazonian Brazil

[edit] Habitat

Moist montane and humid lowland forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia
4. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

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