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Alternative name: Brownish Flycatcher

Photo by Gerald Friesen
Pipeline Road, Gamboa, Panama, February 2014

Cnipodectes subbrunneus

Identification

About 16 cm
Mainly brown with more rufous rump and tail, buff throat and whitish belly. Wing coverts edged tawny producing a weak wing panel. Eye is orange-yellow or possibly brownish. Upper mandible is black while lower mandible is flesh-colored to orange-yellow.

Distribution

South America: found from Panama to eastern Peru and western Amazonian Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

This is a polytypic species which consists of two subspecies:

• C. s. subbrunneus:

• Lowlands of eastern Panama to western Colombia and western Ecuador

• C. s. minor:

• South-eastern Colombia to eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, north-western Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil

An additional subspecies C. s. panamensis is generally considered invalid^[2].

Habitat

Lowland forest.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Farnsworth, A. and D. J. Lebbin (2020). Brownish Twistwing (Cnipodectes subbrunneus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D.A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.brofly1.01
4. Wikipedia

• List of references

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Brownish Twistwing. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 17 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brownish_Twistwing

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