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Location: Savegre Lodge, Costa Rica

Myadestes melanops

[edit] Identification

16-18.5 cm. Slate grey, black face and chin, broad orange bill, slate wings and tail edged black, silvery-white underwing coverts, orange legs.
Juvenile - buff streaks on head and upperparts, buff and brown mottling on the underparts.

[edit] Distribution

Costa Rica and western Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Dense undergrowth and bamboo clumps in wet mountain forest, normally from 750 to 3000 m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects and berries.

[edit] Breeding

It builds a cup nest of mosses and liverworts in a tree crevice, hole in a mossy bank. Two to three rufous-brown marked white or pinkish eggs are laid between April and June. The fledging period is 15-16 days.

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