Black-tailed Leaftosser - BirdForum Opus

Photo by megan perkins
Nuevo Samaria, northern Peru,November, 2011

Sclerurus caudacutus

Identification

16–18 cm (6¼ in)

• Reddish-brown face
• Malar area has faint scalloping
• Dark brown crown

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 6 subspecies^[1]:

• S. c. caudacutus:

• The Guianas

• S. c. insignis:

• Southern Venezuela (Amazonas and Bolívar) and adjacent northern Brazil

• S. c. brunneus:

• Tropical south-eastern Colombia to Peru and western Amazonian Brazil

• S. c. olivascens:

• Eastern Peru (Ayacucho) to extreme northern Bolivia (Pando)

• S. c. pallidus:

• Northern Brazil south of the Amazon (Rio Madeira to Rio Capím)

• S. c. umbretta:

• Coastal eastern Brazil (Alagoas to Espírito Santo)

Habitat

Tropical lowland evergreen forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of insects, annelid worms and ants.

Breeding

They construct a shallow cup nest made from woven leaf stalks and placed at the end of a long tunnel, dug by the birds in an earth bank.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2017)
4. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Black-tailed Leaftosser. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-tailed_Leaftosser

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