Sharpbill - BirdForum Opus

Oxyruncus cristatus

Photo by Luiz
Intervales State Park, SP, Brazil, August 2009

Identification

• Orange erectile crest
• Black-spotted yellowish underparts
• Scaling on the head and neck
• Sharp bill

Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Costa Rica and Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

This species has several non-contigous populations.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Six subspecies are recognized¹:

• O. c. frater:

• Discontinuously distributed Costa Rica and western Panama

• O. c. brooksi:

• Mountains of eastern Panama

• O. c. hypoglaucus:

• Mountains of Guyana, Suriname and south-eastern Venezuela

• O. c. phelpsi:

• Mountains of Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas) and adjacent Guyana

• O. c. tocantinsi:

• Central Brazil (Goiás to Pará and Amapá)

• O. c. cristatus:

• Disjunct ranges in south-eastern Brazil, southern Paraguay, eastern Bolivia and eastern Peru

Restall² additionally mentions tacarcunae.

Habitat

Canopy of wet forest.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes fruit and some invertebrates.

Breeding

The small cup nest is built by the female and placed on a branch. The adult disgorges food to the chicks.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
4. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Sharpbill. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Sharpbill

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