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Nothocercus bonapartei

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Location: Dapa Valle, Colombia

[edit] Identification

38.5 cm Dark brown above, wings and rump buff-spotted, cinnamon below with wavy blackish bars heaviest on flanks, belly pale-spotted. Crown and sides of head blackish, rufous on nape and throat tawny.

[edit] Distribution

Costa Rica, Panama, west Venezuela, Colombia, eastern Ecuador and north-east Peru.

[edit] Taxonomy

Five recognized subspecies^[1]

• N. b. intercedens
  • Western Andes in Colombia
• N. b. discrepans
  • Eastern base of the Andes in Colombia
• N. b. bonapartei
  • Central and eastern Andes in Colombia
  • Western Venezuela
• N. b. plumbeiceps
  • Andes of eastern Ecuador to extreme northern Peru
• N. b. frantzii
  • Highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama

[edit] Habitat

Cloud forest

[edit] Behaviour

A solitary bird that will only gather in small groups. Will eat fruit and sometimes insects.

Breeding can have between 4 to 12 eggs.

[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.

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