- Campylorhynchus rufinucha
Identification
17cm. Black crown and eyestripe, white supercilium, rufous nape, and cinnamon-brown upperparts streaked with black and white. The wings and tail are barred with black and greyish-white. The underparts are white. Young birds have duller upperparts and buff underparts.
Distribution
Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Forest or open woodland, scrub, second growth and savanna.
Behaviour
It builds a spherical nest with a side entrance and lined with seed down in thorny trees or shrub. The female alone incubates the 3-5 brown- or black-spotted white eggs for about 2 weeks until hatching. The young fledge after a further 2 weeks.
The diet includes insects, spiders and other invertebrates.
