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Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii

Photo credit: Peter R. Bono
Date: 2008-07-30
Location: along Manu Road, below Pillahuata Camp (approx. 2500m), Peru

[edit] Identification

22 cm. Long bright rufous tail, brown back with dark streaks, buff streaked dark brown cap and paler eyestripe, cheeks have a tuft of buff-white feathers, white throat, underparts are olive brown with diffuse spotting on the breast. The sexes are similar.

[edit] Distribution

Venezuela, and Bolivia.

[edit] Taxonomy

It is sometimes considered conspecific with the Buffy Tuftedcheek, P. lawrencii.

[edit] Habitat

Wet mountain forests.

[edit] Behaviour

It forages amongst mosses, vines, and bromeliads for insects, spiders, and small amphibians.

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