Orange-breasted thornbird

Orange-breasted thornbird
at Reserva Guainumbi, São Luís do Paraitinga, São Paulo State, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Furnariidae
Genus:Phacellodomus
Species: P. ferrugineigula
Binomial name
Phacellodomus ferrugineigula
(Pelzeln, 1858)
Synonyms[2]

P. erythrophthalmus ferrugineigula

The orange-breasted thornbird (Phacellodomus ferrugineigula), also known as the red-eyed thornbird, is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in forest and woodland, especially near water, in south-eastern Brazil and adjacent northern Uruguay.[3]

Adult

It was formerly considered a subspecies of P. erythropthalmus, but under the common name red-eyed thornbird.[2] When split, P. erythropthalmus is known as the orange-eyed thornbird. Unlike that species, the orange-breasted thornbird has dark reddish-brown eyes, extensive rufous to the underparts, a relatively large rufous crown-patch, and dark central rectrices (which contrast with the rufous outer rectrices). The two also have different voices and are locally sympatric in São Paulo without evidence of interbreeding.[4]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Phacellodomus ferrugineigula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Phacellodomus ferrugineigula". Avibase.
  3. ↑ Cravino, Jorge; Claramunt, Santiago (2007). "First records of Red-eyed Thornbird Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus ferrugineigula and Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas for Uruguay". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 127 (4): 327–329.
  4. ↑ Simon, J. E., Pacheco, J. F., Whitney, B. M., Mattos, G. T., & Gagliardi, R. L. (2008). Phacellodomus ferrugineigula (Pelzeln, 1858) (Aves: Furnariidae) é uma espécie válida. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 16(2): 107-124.


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