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Carajás, Pará, Brazil

Thamnomanes caesius

[edit] Identification

14/5cm
Male: totally slate grey
Female

• Lighter grey
• Rufous belly

[edit] Distribution

South America: found ind Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 5 subspecies^[1]:

• T. c. glaucus:

• Eastern Colombia to the Guianas, north-eastern Peru and Brazil north of the River Amazon

• T. c. persimilis:

• Central Brazil south of the River Amazon and extreme north-eastern Bolivia

• T. c. simillimus:

• South-central Amazonian Brazil along middle River Purús

• T. c. hoffmannsi:

• East-central Brazil south of the Amazon (River Tapajós to northern Maranhão, north-eastern Mato Grosso)

• T. c. caesius:

• Coastal eastern Brazil (Pernambuco Rio de Janeiro, inland to Minas Gerais)

An additional subspecies simillimus is generally considered invalid^[2].

[edit] Habitat

Lowland moist forests, savanna forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects.

[edit] Breeding

Monogamous.

Both adults incubate the 2 eggs and care for the young.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia
4. Answers.com

• List of references

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