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Premnoplex brunnescens
Photo by Gary Clark.
Location: Tandayapa Lodge, Ecuador

Identification

Dark brown with a white to tawny, oblong tawny-ochraceous spots on the breast, brown belly and dark brown to roufus barbed tail.

Distribution

Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Moist montane forests.

Behaviour

Adults build and sleep in dormitories, similar in form to breeding nests. Both sexes build the loose cup shaped nest of tree ferns lined with fibres over water. 2 white eggs are laid. Incubation lasts 27-31 days and nestlings fledged after 19-22 days.

The diet includes arthropods.

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