Cinnamon-rumped Foliage-gleaner
Philydor pyrrhodes
Medium-sized, richly-colored bird of swampy forests. Mostly rufous brown with a dark brown crown and back and a bright rufous-orange tail. Shows a prominent eyebrow extending well behind eye, like others in genus. Occurs primarily in lower levels of seasonally flooded lowland forests, palm swamps, and forest with a dense understory of heliconias or palms where it is uncommon and rarely seen. Forages for insects by probing into hanging dead leaves or accumulated detritus at bases of palm fronds, sometimes with mixed-species flocks but often encountered away from them. Vocalizations, loud but infrequent, include an extraordinarily long, ascending trill and an abrasive chatter, the latter given in alarm. Best told from other species by bright cinnamon underparts and tail contrasting with brown back.
Identification
The cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner is 14 to 17 cm (5.5 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 24 to 35 g (0.85 to 1.2 oz). The sexes have the same plumage, with the brightest underparts of its genus. Adults have an ochraceous eyering and supercilium, a weak rufescent brown band behind the eye, dull rufescent brownish lores, and rufescent brown ear coverts. Their crown is dark rufescent brown with a faint darker scalloped effect. Their back is rufescent brown, their rump rufous, and their uppertail coverts and tail bright orange-rufous. Their wings are dark fuscous brown. Their chin, throat, breast, belly, and undertail coverts are bright orange ochraceous. Their iris is brown to dark brown, their maxilla dark gray to blackish, their mandible dark gray to silvery gray, and their legs and feet olive-greenish to yellowish olive. Juveniles have browner upperparts and a paler and less rufescent throat than adults.
Taxonomy
The cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner is monotypic.
- Scientific name
- Philydor pyrrhodes
- Authority
- (Cabanis, 1849)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae
- Genus
- Philydor
Range and habitat
The cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner is found from southeastern Colombia east through southern Venezuela and the Guianas, south through eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru into northern Bolivia, and from there east through Brazil to Pará and Maranhão and south to Mato Grosso. It inhabits tropical lowland and flooded evergreen forest, terra firme forest, and várzea forest. It favors areas with many palms. In elevation it mostly occurs below 400 m (1,300 ft) but reaches 600 m (2,000 ft) in Colombia and 500 m (1,600 ft) in Brazil.
- Migration
- Resident species
Behavior
Migration pattern: Resident species.
Conservation
Population trend: stable.
- Population trend
- stable
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Distribution
Bird Calls
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