- Myadestes melanops
Identification
16-18.5 cm. Slate grey, black face and chin, broad orange bill, slate wings and tail edged black, silvery-white underwing coverts, orange legs.
Juvenile - buff streaks on head and upperparts, buff and brown mottling on the underparts.
Distribution
Costa Rica and western Panama.
Taxonomy
Monotypic.
Habitat
Dense undergrowth and bamboo clumps in wet mountain forest, normally from 750 to 3000 m.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects and berries.
Breeding
It builds a cup nest of mosses and liverworts in a tree crevice, hole in a mossy bank. Two to three rufous-brown marked white or pinkish eggs are laid between April and June. The fledging period is 15-16 days.
