- Ochetorhynchus phoenicurus
Identification
Length: 18cm (7in)
- Dull olive-brown back
- Lighter brown-streaked belly
- White throat
- Rufous on the margins of blackish tail
- Whitish stripe over the eye
- Bill long, slightly downcurved, and pointed
- Long tail
Sexes similar.
Distribution
Taxonomy
Formerly placed in the monotypic genus Eremobius but now moved to the genus Ochetorhynchus.
Monotypic[1]
Habitat
Dry shrubland and temperate grassland particularly dense stands of Lepidophylum cupressiforme.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects and small invertebrates.
Breeding
A large twiggy oval nest is placed in a low shrub. Both adults incubate the eggs and rear the young.
Vocalisations
Song is a distinctive fast ascending dry trill sometimes ending with loud separate sharp chwip notes;
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to October 2008 (Corrigenda 8). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
- Jaramillo, A. 2003. Birds of Chile. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117409
- Band-tailed Earthcreeper (Ochetorhynchus phoenicurus), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/batear1
- Remsen, J.V., Jr (2019). Band-tailed Earthcreeper (Ochetorhynchus phoenicurus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/56376 on 14 January 2019).
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Band-tailed Earthcreeper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Band-tailed_Earthcreeper
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