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Male
Photo © by Mark Harper
Leymebamba, Peru, 17 August 2023

Alternative name: Chestnut-belted Chat-Tyrant

Ochthoeca thoracica

Identification

12–13 cm (4¾-5 in)

  • Upperside and head including throat slaty to blackish
  • White supercilium reaches just beyond the eye
  • Long Rictal bristles
  • Upper breast maroon or deep chestnut
  • Underside from central breast is grey

Variation

The breast band are narrower on northern birds than those from southern Peru and Bolivia.

Similar Species

Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant is paler and has a different shape to rufous breast band.

Distribution

South America: found in Peru (south and west of the Marañón Valley) as well as in Bolivia. The southern birds also tend to have the underside less dark than northern birds.

Taxonomy

Chestnut-bellied Chat-Tyrant, Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant, and Blackish Chat-Tyrant formerly were one species named Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized[1].

  • O. t. angustifasciata Andes of northern Peru in Amazonas (south and east of the Marañón Valley) and San Martín, populations south of Huánuco probably also this subspecies; also locally in east central and southeastern Cajamarca, west of the Marañón Valley
  • O. t. thoracica in southern Peru and Bolivia

Habitat

Along forested streams in mid elevation, to heights around 3300 m asl.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of insects which they wait for on a favoured perch. They rarely join mixed species flocks.

Vocalisation

A drawn out whistle of about a seconds duration, often first rising and than falling in pitch.

Gallery

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References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.1)_red. Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
  3. Schulenberg, T. S. & Stotz, D. F. & Lane, D. F. & O'Neill, J. P. & Parker III, T. A. & Egg, A. B. (2010). Birds of Peru: Revised and Updated Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691130231
  4. Herzog, SK, RS Terrill, AE Jahn, JV Remsen Jr.,O Maillars Z, VH Garcia-Soliz, R MacLeod, A Maccormick, & JQ Vidoz, 2019. Birds of Bolivia, Revised first ed. Associacion Armonia and Future Generations University Press. ISBN 975-99974-922-7-2
  5. Farnsworth, A., J. del Hoyo, N. Collar, G. Langham, and G. M. Kirwan (2022). Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant (Ochthoeca thoracica), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (N. D. Sly and S. M. Billerman, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.slbcht3.01

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