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Photo by Marcelo Padua
Transpantaneira Road, Pantanal, Brazil
Cantorchilus leucotis

Thryothorus leucotis

Identification

  • Buff breast
  • Rufous belly
  • Black barred wings and tail
  • Sides of head streaked black and white
  • Narrow white supercilium

Similar Species

Long-billed Wren

Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: found only in Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay

Taxonomy

Was formerly placed in genus Thryothorus like all other species of the genus Cantorchilus.

Subspecies[1]

There are 11 subspecies:

  • C. l. galbraithii: Eastern Panama and north-western Colombia (northern Chocó and northern Antioquia)
  • C. l. conditus: Pearl Islands and Coiba Island (Gulf of Panama)
  • C. l. leucotis: Northern Colombia (western slope of Santa Marta Mountains to Magdalena Valley)
  • C. l. collinus: Northern Colombia (northern Guajira Peninsula in Serranía de Macuira)
  • C. l. venezuelanus: Northern tropical Colombia and north-western Venezuela
  • C. l. zuliensis: Eastern Colombia (Norte de Santander) to western Venezuela
  • C. l. peruanus: South-eastern Colombia to eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil
  • C. l. bogotensis: Llanos of eastern Colombia to central Venezuela
  • C. l. hypoleucus: Llanos of north central Venezuela
  • C. l. albipectus: North-eastern Venezuela to the Guianas, north-eastern Brazil and northern Mato Grosso
  • C. l. rufiventris: Eastern Brazil (southern Maranhão to Piauí, Goiás, Minas Gerais and São Paulo)

Habitat

Forest undergrowth and thickets near water.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
  2. Avibase
  3. Arthur Grosset

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