Chestnut-capped Foliage-gleaner
Clibanornis rectirostris
Large foliage-gleaner with startling yellow eyes and a long bill and tail. Rather uniform rufous above and paler below. Found in gallery forests near water, mostly foraging on the ground or understory, sometimes with mixed-species flocks. The call is a very loud cackling “ka-ka-ka karaka ka-ka-ka” with some rattling noises interspersed.
Identification
The henna-capped foliage-gleaner is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long and weighs 44 to 51 g (1.6 to 1.8 oz). It is a largish furnariid with a long almost straight bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a chestnut face with a light rufous moustacial area. Their crown is chestnut that becomes a slightly paler reddish chestnut collar and a rich ochraceous brown back and rump. Their uppertail coverts are chestnut. Their wings are mostly dark rufous and their tail chestnut. Their throat is pale rufous that becomes slightly darker on their breast and belly. Their flanks are darker rufescent brown and their undertail coverts reddish-rufous.Their iris is sulphur-yellow, their bill dark gray with a paler base to the mandible, and their legs and feet grayish.
Taxonomy
The henna-capped foliage-gleaner has previously been placed in genera Automolus and Hypocryptus but genetic data place it firmly in Clibanornis. It and the canebrake groundcreeper (c. dendrocolaptoides) are sister species.<p>The henna-capped foliage-gleaner is monotypic.
- Scientific name
- Clibanornis rectirostris
- Authority
- (Wied-Neuwied, M, 1831)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae
- Genus
- Clibanornis
Range and habitat
The henna-capped foliage-gleaner is found in south-central Brazil between the states of Mato Grosso, Bahia, and Paraná and into eastern Paraguay's San Pedro Department. It inhabits gallery forest and also deciduous woodlands at elevations between 200 and 1,000 m (700 and 3,300 ft).
- Migration
- Resident species
Behavior
The henna-capped foliage-gleaner is a year-round resident throughout its range.<p>The henna-capped foliage-gleaner feeds on arthropods. It forages mostly by itself or in pairs and is thought to occasionally join mixed-species feeding flocks. It is mostly terrestrial and gleans its prey from the ground and leaf litter.<p>The henna-capped foliage-gleaner is assumed to be monogamous. It makes a nest of dry grass and leaves in a tunnel it excavates in an earthen bank. Nothing else is known about its breeding biology.<p>The henna-capped foliage-gleaner's call is a "dry, cackling 'kjep -kjep - -". Its song is like the call "but accelerating to a rattle, in total lasting 2-3 sec."
Conservation
- Population trend
- declining
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