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Photo by Rick and Elis
south Brazil, June 2011

Phacellodomus striaticollis

[edit] Identification

The name comes from the faint white freckling on the breast. Note also the yellow iris and the brown crown with faint pale shaft streaking.

[edit] Similar Species

Greater Thornbird

[edit] Distribution

South-east Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and north-east Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species¹.

Spot-breasted Thornbird was until recently treated as a subspecies of Freckle-breasted Thornbird.

[edit] Habitat

Almost always near water including thickets in marshes, borders of gallery woodland, etc.

[edit] Behaviour

Occasionally forages in the open.

[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. Ridgely and Tudor 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America - the passerines. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, USA. ISBN 978-0-292-71979-8

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