Sharp-billed Treehunter - BirdForum Opus

Alternative names: Sharp-billed Xenops

Photo by Francisco Paludo
Quatro Barras, Paraná, Brazil, April 2016

Heliobletus contaminatus

Identification

12–13 cm (4¾-5 in)

• Broad light golden supercilium
• Dark brown postocular band

Distribution

South America: found in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspeies^[1]:

• H. c. contaminatus:

• South-eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro); intergrades with camargoi in eastern São Paulo

• H. c. camargoi:

• Southern Brazil (south and west of the city of São Paulo), eastern Paraguay, and north-eastern Argentina

Habitat

Evergreen forests, both lowland and montane, from sea level to 1830 m.

Behaviour

Diet

The forage both singly and in pairs, very often in mixed species flocks. Their main diet consists of arthropods, which are to be found from the mid-storey to the canopy.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved April 2016)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Sharp-billed Treehunter. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 18 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Sharp-billed_Treehunter

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