Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Lcverissimo
Intervales State Park, Ribeirão Grande, SP, Brazil, June, 2017

Dendroma rufa

Philydor rufum

Identification

Length 18-19cm (7-7½in)

• East slope birds are olive brown above, with rusty forehead and buff eyebrow. Throat is bright ochre-buff, with duller underparts.
  
• West slope birds similar but darker overall, with rusty primaries and tail and greyish-olive crown.

Distribution

Southeastern South America: Brazil and Paraguay, extreme northeast Argentina. Both slopes of Andes in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

Also found in Central America in Panama and Costa Rica.

Taxonomy

Photo by Francisco Paludo
Campina Grande do Sul, PR, Brazil, 2017

This is a polytypic species^[1] consisting of 7 subspecies.

Subspecies

• D. r. panerythra:

• Highlands of Costa Rica to Eastern Andes of Colombia

• D. r. riveti:

• Western Andes of Colombia and north-western Ecuador (Pichincha and El Oro)

• D. r. columbiana:

• Coastal cordillera of northern Venezuela

• D. r. cuchiverus:

• Subtropical southern Venezuela (Bolívar)

• D. r. boliviana:

• Eastern Peru and Bolivia (La Paz and Santa Cruz)

• D. r. chapadensis:

• South-western Brazil (Mato Grosso)

• D. r. rufa:

• Eastern Brazil (Goiás and Bahia) to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina

Habitat

Sub canopy and borders of semi-open semi-tropical forest.

Behaviour

Diet

Forages singly or in pairs. Agile and fast-moving forager on tree branches; sometimes hangs upside-down. They hunt for insects such as spiders and their eggs, katydids and crickets.

Breeding

They nest in holes in trees or banks. It is thought this species is monogamous.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Arthur Grosset
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Sept 2017)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Buff-fronted_Foliage-gleaner

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