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Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Santa Marta, Colombia, May 2013
Grallaricula ferrugineipectus

Identification

11cm. Tail-less, pale pink legs, olive brown upperparts, buff loral spot and eyering, white throat, white crescent on chest, rust-buff underparts, white undertail coverts.

Distribution

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.


Taxonomy

Habitat

Moist montanes.

Behaviour

It builds a shallow cup shaped nest of twigs and 2 pale green-grey, brown-marked eggs are laid.

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