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Photo © by Oregonian
Nevado De Ruiz, near Manizales, Caldas, Colombia, August 2006

Ochthoeca fumicolor

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Subspecies superciliosa
Photo © by iainp
High Andes, Venezuela, July 2010

Five subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• O. f. superciliosa:

• Andes of western Venezuela (Trujillo, Mérida and eastern Táchira)

• O. f. fumicolor:

• Eastern Andes of Colombia and western Venezuela (western Táchira)

• O. f. ferruginea:

• Central and Western Andes of Colombia (Antioquia)

• O. f. brunneifrons:

• Central and Western Andes of Colombia to central Peru

• O. f. berlepschi:

• Andes of south-eastern Peru (Cuzco and Puno) to western Bolivia

HBWalive^[4] did split this into two species: the first subspecies was called Rufous-browed Chat-tyrant (Ochthoeca superciliosa) while the rest was known as Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant. No other main taxonomic entity has agreed.

Habitat

Paramo and mountains observed at 3015m.

Behaviour

Photo © by Peter R. Bono
Manu Road, Quebrada at 3020m before reaching Ajcanacu Pass, Peru, July 2008

References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Avibase
3. BF Member observations
4. del Hoyo, J., Collar, N. & Kirwan, G.M. (2020). Rufous-browed Chat-tyrant (Ochthoeca superciliosa). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/1343716 on 23 March 2020).
5. Farnsworth, A., J. del Hoyo, N. Collar, G. Langham, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant (Ochthoeca fumicolor), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.bbctyr1.01

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brown-backed_Chat-Tyrant

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