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Limnoctites rectirostris

Limnornis rectirostris^[2][4]

Photo by Fritz73
Photographed: Otamendi Reserve, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[edit] Identification

16 cm. Grey brown upperparts with whitish supercillium; rufous wings and tail. Underparts white becoming buff on flanks and undertail. Immature cinnamon above and ochraceous below.

[edit] Distribution

North-eastern Argentina, south-eastern Brazil, and Uruguay.

[edit] Taxonomy

This species is monotypic, and the only species in the genus Limnoctites.^[1][3] However, some ornithologists believe it belongs in genus Cranioleuca.

[edit] Habitat

Marshy areas associated with spiny plants.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
3. {Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
4. Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.

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