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[[Image:Band-tailed_Earthcreeper.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|Fritz73|Fritz73}}<br />Las Lajas, Neuquen, [[Argentina]], 2004]] | [[Image:Band-tailed_Earthcreeper.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|Fritz73|Fritz73}}<br />Las Lajas, Neuquen, [[Argentina]], 2004]] | ||
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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
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[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Eremobius]] [[Category:Ochetorhynchus]] | [[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Eremobius]] [[Category:Ochetorhynchus]] | ||
Revision as of 13:54, 5 January 2011
- Ochetorhynchus phoenicurus
Identification
18cm
- Dull olive-brown back
- Lighter brown-streaked belly
- White throat
- Rufous on the margins of blackish tail
- Whitish stripe over the eye
- Bill long, slightly downcurved, and pointed
- Long tail
Sexes similar.
Distribution
Taxonomy
Monotypic.[1]
Habitat
Dry shrubland and temperate grassland.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects and small invertebrates.
Breeding
A twiggy nest is placed in a low shrub. Both adults incubate the eggs and rear the young.
References
- 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
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to October 2008 (Corrigenda 8). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
- Answers.com
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Band-tailed Earthcreeper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Band-tailed_Earthcreeper
