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Photo by Luiz
Crato, Ceará, Brazil, April 2014
Synallaxis hellmayri

Identification

18–19 cm

  • Brownish-grey upper parts

Distribution

Arid north-eastern Brazil (Piauí, n Bahia and w Pernambuco).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Placed in the genus Gyalophylax by Gill and Donsker.

Habitat

Dry savanna.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of spiders and seeds.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2014)

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