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Ubatuba area, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 2004

Iodopleura pipra

[edit] Identification

9.5cm

• Grey upperparts
• Grey-barred white underparts
• White rump
• Cinnamon buff throat, chest and under tail
• Violet flanks
  

Female: lacks the colourful flanks
Juveniles: have white feather tips

[edit] Distribution

South America: endemic to Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 2 subspecies:

• I. p. leucopygia:

• Coastal north-eastern Brazil (Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas and Bahia)

• I. p. pipra:

• Coastal eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo)

[edit] Habitat

Lowland and coastal humid forest and plantations up to 1,000m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes primarily mistletoe berries, other fruit and insects.

[edit] Breeding

A tiny cup-shaped nest is built and 1 egg is laid.

[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. ARKive

• List of references

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