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Camacan, Brazil, 6 September 2017
Phylloscartes beckeri

Identification

12 cm

  • Olive-green upperparts
  • Faint grey in centre of crown
  • Narrow, buff eye-ring and supraloral stripe
  • Short, creamy postocular eyebrow
  • Whitish-yellow throat and breast
  • Pale yellow centre of belly with olive sides
  • Two yellowish wing-bars
  • Greenish fringes to flight feathers

Distribution

South America: Restricted to the North East of Brazil in the state of Bahia. A good place to look for this unobtrusive species is in the remaining forest at Boa Nova.

Taxonomy

Monotypic[1]

Habitat

Moist montanes.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes arthropods.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. BirdLife International

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