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La Selva Biological Research Station, Costa Rica, May 2009

Myiothlypis fulvicauda

Basileuterus fulvicauda

[edit] Identification

13-13.5 cm

• Dark olive brown upperparts
• White underparts
• Grey head
• Buff supercilium
• Buff rump, flanks and upper tail
• Black lower tail
  

Sexes similar
Juvenile

• Brown upperparts, head and breast
• Paler rump

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

[edit] Taxonomy

Formerly placed in genus Basileuterus or in Phaeothlypis.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 6 subspecies.

• M. f. leucopygia:

• Tropical north-central Honduras to western Panama (Veraguas)

• M. f. veraguensis:

• Tropical south-western Costa Rica to central Panama (Canal Zone)

• M. f. semicervina:

• Tropical eastern Panama (Darién) to north-western Peru (Tumbes and Piura)

• M. f. motacilla:

• Northern Colombia (upper Magdalena Valley in Tolima and Huila)

• M. f. fulvicauda::
• Tropical eastern Colombia to Ecuador, Peru (Junín) and extreme western Brazil
• M. f. significans:

• Tropical south-eastern Peru (Inambari and Tambopata drainages) to north-western Bolivia

[edit] Habitat

Rain forest and forest edges of secondary growth up to 1500m, near water.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

Both parents build a domed nest with side entrance; it is placed on a sloping bank. The 2 white eggs are incubated for 16-17 days; the young fledge 13-14 days later.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects, spiders and small invertebrates.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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