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Identification

Female, subspecies maura
Photo by Marcelo Padua
Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil

There are 10 subspecies^[1]:

P. l. pacifica: Western Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru (Tumbes)
P. l. castanoptera: Eastern Andean slope of southern Colombia to eastern Ecuador and northern Peru
P. l. picea: Eastern Andean slope of Peru (southern Amazonas to Junín and Ayacucho)
P. l. marcapatensis: South-eastern Peru (Madre de Dios, Cusco and Puno)
P. l. hellmayri: West-central Bolivia (Beni, La Paz, Cochabamba and western Santa Cruz)
P. l. maura: Eastern Bolivia to south-central Brazil (Mato Grosso) and northern Paraguay
P. l. similis: South-central Amazonian Brazil (River Tapajós to River Xingú)
P. l. interposita: East-central Brazil (River Xingú to River Tocantins)
P. l. leuconota: Eastern Brazil (eastern Pará east of River Tocantins and northern Maranhão)
P. l. pernambucensis: North-eastern Brazil (eastern Pernambuco and eastern Alagoas)

Female, subspecies castanoptera
Photo by Stanley Jones
Wildsumaco Lodge, Napo Province, Ecuador, January 2016

Forests and moist montanes.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) East Amazonian Fire-eye. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 22 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/East_Amazonian_Fire-eye