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==Identification==
 
==Identification==
Slate-gray upperparts, black face, throat, red breast, belly, and chestnut-brown crown. The tail is slate-gray with white edges and the wings are black. Thin, pointed bill.
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Slate-gray upperparts, black face and throat The breast and belly are red in ''M.m Minatus'' or yellow-orange  in ''M.m. Connectus''.  Has chestnut-brown crown. The tail is slate-gray with white edges and the wings are black. Thin, pointed bill.
  
 
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==Distribution==

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Photo by jonlowes
Reserva Biologica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde, Costa Rica, 11th March 2007
Myioborus miniatus

Identification

Slate-gray upperparts, black face and throat The breast and belly are red in M.m Minatus or yellow-orange in M.m. Connectus. Has chestnut-brown crown. The tail is slate-gray with white edges and the wings are black. Thin, pointed bill.

Distribution

Northern Mexico south to Central America and South America.

Taxonomy

Myioborus miniatus miniatus
Photo by Raul Padilla
Pachuca, Mexico, 25th June 2011

Habitat

Wooded pine-oak canyons.

Behaviour

The diet includes insects caught on the wing.

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