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Ruddy Treerunner

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Margarornis rubiginosus

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[edit] Identification

16 cm. It has bright rufous upperparts and a white supercilium. It has a white throat and otherwise tawny underparts.

[edit] Distribution

Costa Rica and Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Hills and mountains from 1200 m up to the timberline, in forests and adjacent edges and clearings.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes large insects, spiders and their eggs and larvae.

It builds a large enclosed oval nest 25 m high in the crown of a tree on the underside of a thick branch. The nest is camouflaged with mosses and has a downward pointing entrance tunnel at its base.

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