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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
16 cm. It has bright rufous upperparts and a white supercilium. It has a white throat and otherwise tawny underparts. | 16 cm. It has bright rufous upperparts and a white supercilium. It has a white throat and otherwise tawny underparts. | ||
Latest revision as of 16:33, 10 March 2018
- Margarornis rubiginosus
Identification
16 cm. It has bright rufous upperparts and a white supercilium. It has a white throat and otherwise tawny underparts.
Distribution
Costa Rica and Panama.
Taxonomy
Two subspecies are recognized[1]:
- M.r. rubiginosus - Highlands of Costa Rica and w Panama (w Chiriquí)
- M.r. boultoni - Highlands of c Panama (e Chiriquí and Veraguas)
Habitat
Hills and mountains from 1200 m up to the timberline, in forests and adjacent edges and clearings.
Behaviour
The diet includes large insects, spiders and their eggs and larvae.
It builds a large enclosed oval nest 25 m high in the crown of a tree on the underside of a thick branch. The nest is camouflaged with mosses and has a downward pointing entrance tunnel at its base.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Ruddy Treerunner. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Ruddy_Treerunner
