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Zaratornis stresemanni

[edit] Identification

18 cm. Black crown, silver-white face and cheeks, grey-brown throat and upper breast, rest of underparts yellowish-buff, streaked black, except in mid-belly, upperparts striped buff and dusky, dusky wings and tail fringed yellow, red iris. Juvenile paler, with drab breast.

[edit] Distribution

Peru.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Forests in mountain areas.

[edit] Behaviour

Its diet primarily includes two genera of mistletoe, for which it is the main seed-dispersal agent.

Nests are built in March; eggs and young have been found in May.

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