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- Leptasthenura striolata
Identification
16–16.5 cm. The sexes are similar. Brown back with buffy streaks, brown tail with rufous outer feathers , brown wings, reddish brown throat and belly with brown speckles, black crown with rufous streaks, brown tail tipped with two sharp spines emerging from the tips of the central pair of tail-feathers, buffy-white stripe over the eye. Short, straight, and sharply pointed bill.
Distribution
South east Brazil.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Temperate forests and moist shrubland.
Behaviour
Diet includes insects and invertebrates.
It builds its nest in a cavity in a tree, rock pile, wall, or earthen bank, or in an abandoned oven-nest of another species of ovenbird. Both the male and female incubate the eggs and rear the nestlings.
