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Photo by Garrulous Jay
Rio Negro Dept., Uruguay, February 2017
Drymornis bridgesii

Identification

29–35 cm (11½-13¾ in)

Distribution

South America: From southern Bolivia to central Argentina, Uruguay, western Paraguay and southwest Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Farmland, woodland and scrub.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of spiders and centipedes; they also eat some plant material.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2014)

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