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Camptostoma obsoletum
Photo by Stanley Jones
El Oro Province, Ecuador, November 2014

Identification

10.2 cm. Dark brown head with an erectile crest and pale supercilium. Grey-green upperparts becoming paler on the rump. Brown wings with yellow feather-edging and two white, yellow or cinnamon wing bars. Brown tail, grey throat, yellow breast and abdomen. The bill is black, the base of the lower mandible is pale.

Distribution

Costa Rica, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Light forests, cultivation and gardens with trees.

Behaviour

The diet includeson insects, spiders and berries.

It builds a domed nest of plant fibre or leaves with a side entrance, placed by a tree fork, usually near a wasp nest. 2 white eggs, marked with rufous and lilac are laid and incubated by the female for 14-15 days. The young fledge 17 days later.


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