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- Premnoplex brunnescens
Location: Tandayapa Lodge, Ecuador ]]
Identification
Dark brown with a white to tawny, oblong tawny-ochraceous spots on the breast, brown belly and dark brown to roufus barbed tail.
Distribution
Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Moist montane forests.
Behaviour
Adults build and sleep in dormitories, similar in form to breeding nests. Both sexes build the loose cup shaped nest of tree ferns lined with fibres over water. 2 white eggs are laid. Incubation lasts 27-31 days and nestlings fledged after 19-22 days.
The diet includes arthropods.