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[[Image:Chestnut-backed_Antshrike.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|arthurgrosset|arthurgrosset}}<br />Camacã, Bahia, [[Brazil]], March 2004]]
[[Image:Chestnut-backed_Antshrike.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by arthurgrosset]]
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;[[:Category:Thamnophilus|Thamnophilus]] palliatus
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
Photographed: Camac, Bahia, Brazil.
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[[File:Chestnut-backed_Antshrike_Female_FRITZ.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Female<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|Fritz73|Fritz73}}<br />Camacan, [[Brazil]], 6 September 2017]]
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17cm.<br />
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'''Male'''
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*Rufous-chestnut back and tail
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*Black crown
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*Streaked and barred black and white underparts and sides of head
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*Dark iris
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*Grey bill, legs and feet<br />
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'''Female''': similar, rufous-chestnut crown
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==Distribution==
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Two separate populations: coastal eastern [[Brazil]]; and from just south of the Amazon River in estern Brazil to [[Bolivia]] and [[Peru]].
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[[Image:Chestnut-backed_Antshrike_by_Rafael_Fortes.JPG|thumb|350px|right|Photo by {{user|Rafael_Fortes|Rafael Fortes}}<br />Angra dos Reis-RJ, [[Brazil]], June 2010]]
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==Taxonomy==
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Four subspecies are recognized<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>:
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*''T.p. similis'':
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:*Eastern slope of Andes of central [[Peru]] (Huánuco and Junín)
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*''T.p. puncticeps'':
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:*South-eastern Peru (Cusco and Puno) to northern [[Bolivia]] and southern Amazonian [[Brazil]]
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*''T.p. palliatus'':
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:*Brazil south of River Amazon and coastal north-eastern Brazil (Paraíba to northern Bahia)
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*''T.p. vestitus'':
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:*Coastal eastern Brazil (southern Bahia to Rio de Janeiro)
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==Habitat==
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Forest edges, secondary woodland, bamboo, parks, gardens.
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==Behaviour==
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It builds a cup nest from twigs.
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug19}}# Ridgely and Tudor 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America - The Passerines. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71979-8
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#Ber van Perlo. 2009. A field guide to the Birds of Brazil. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-530155-7
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#Arthur Grosset
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{{ref}}
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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{{GSearch|Thamnophilus+palliatus}}
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[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Thamnophilus]]

Latest revision as of 11:39, 19 June 2021

Photo by arthurgrosset
Camacã, Bahia, Brazil, March 2004
Thamnophilus palliatus

Identification

Female
Photo © by Fritz73
Camacan, Brazil, 6 September 2017

17cm.
Male

  • Rufous-chestnut back and tail
  • Black crown
  • Streaked and barred black and white underparts and sides of head
  • Dark iris
  • Grey bill, legs and feet

Female: similar, rufous-chestnut crown

Distribution

Two separate populations: coastal eastern Brazil; and from just south of the Amazon River in estern Brazil to Bolivia and Peru.

Photo by Rafael Fortes
Angra dos Reis-RJ, Brazil, June 2010

Taxonomy

Four subspecies are recognized[1]:

  • T.p. similis:
  • Eastern slope of Andes of central Peru (Huánuco and Junín)
  • T.p. puncticeps:
  • South-eastern Peru (Cusco and Puno) to northern Bolivia and southern Amazonian Brazil
  • T.p. palliatus:
  • Brazil south of River Amazon and coastal north-eastern Brazil (Paraíba to northern Bahia)
  • T.p. vestitus:
  • Coastal eastern Brazil (southern Bahia to Rio de Janeiro)

Habitat

Forest edges, secondary woodland, bamboo, parks, gardens.

Behaviour

It builds a cup nest from twigs.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Ridgely and Tudor 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America - The Passerines. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71979-8
  3. Ber van Perlo. 2009. A field guide to the Birds of Brazil. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-530155-7
  4. Arthur Grosset

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