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Photo by Michael W
Milpe Bird Sanctuary, western foothills, Ecuador, March 2007

Thamnistes anabatinus

[edit] Identification

14cm

• Brown upperparts
• Rufous wing and tail
• Dark eyestripe
• Buff supercilium
• Olive underparts
• Heavy hooked bill
  

Sexes similar
Male has rufous-orange patch in the centre of his back.
Juveniles have rufous fringes to the wing coverts and are paler below.

[edit] Distribution

Southern Mexico through Central America and western South America to northern Bolivia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

Seven subspecies are recognized in this widespread species^[1]:

• T. a. anabatinus:

• Atlantic slope of south-eastern Mexico to Guatemala, Belize and Honduras

• T. a. saturatus:

• Atlantic slope of Nicaragua to Costa Rica and extreme western Panama

• T. a. coronatus:

• Central and eastern Panama (Veraguas to Dari‚n) and north-western Colombia

• T. a. intermedius:

• Pacific slope of western Colombia and Ecuador
  

• T. a. gularis:

• Extreme north-western Venezuela (T chira) and (? adjacent north-eastern Colombia)

• T. a. aequatorialis:

• Foothills of south-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and extreme northern Peru

• T. a. rufescens:

• Eastern Peru south of the R¡o Mara¤¢n (Amazonas) to western Bolivia

[edit] Habitat

Humid to wet woodland in foothills and lower slopes of mountains.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

A deep cup shaped nest is built high in a tree and 2 brown speckled white eggs are laid. Both sexes build the nest, incubate the eggs and care for the young.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects and other arthropods. Often participate in mixed species flocks when feeding.

[edit] Vocalisation

Restall quote sources for saying that the subspecies east and west of the Andes differ in vocalizations, and therefore probably are different species.

[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. Restall, R, Rodner, C and Lentino M. 2007. Birds of northern South America. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. ISBN 9780300108620

• List of references

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