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Campylorhynchus rufinucha

Photo by Gary Clark.
Location: Bijogual Waterfall area, Costa Rica.

Photo by Ornitho26
Location: Tarcoles, Costa Rica.

Identification

17cm. Black crown and eyestripe, white supercilium, rufous nape, and cinnamon-brown upperparts streaked with black and white. The wings and tail are barred with black and greyish-white. The underparts are white. Young birds have duller upperparts and buff underparts.

Distribution

Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Forest or open woodland, scrub, second growth and savanna.

Behaviour

It builds a spherical nest with a side entrance and lined with seed down in thorny trees or shrub. The female alone incubates the 3-5 brown- or black-spotted white eggs for about 2 weeks until hatching. The young fledge after a further 2 weeks.

The diet includes insects, spiders and other invertebrates.

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