Bamboo Foliage-gleaner (Anabazenops dorsalis) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Bamboo Foliage-gleaner (Anabazenops dorsalis), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Bamboo Foliage-gleaner sounds like

Sonogram of the Bamboo Foliage-gleaner: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: 1 km E Shaimi, Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The bamboo foliage-gleaner is about 19 cm (7.5 in) long. It has a thick medium-length bill. The sexes' plumages are alike. Adults have a narrow grayish buff supercilium, grayish lores, and a creamy white malar area on an otherwise grayish brown face. Their crown, nape, back, and rump are dull reddish brown, with no markings except faint scalloping on the crown. Their uppertail coverts are dull chestnut and their tail dark chestnut. Their wings are dull brown with some dull tawny at the bend. Voice: The bamboo foliage-gleaner's song is "a measured 'tcho-tcho-tcho-tcho-tcho...' " with a variable number of notes. Pairs sometimes sing an antiphonal duet. The species' contact call is "a harsh 'klek' or 'cheff' ".

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When to see the Bamboo Foliage-gleaner

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bamboo Foliage-gleaner

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Ecuador Brazil Bolivia

About the Bamboo Foliage-gleaner

The bamboo foliage-gleaner, also known as the crested foliage-gleaner or dusky-cheeked foliage-gleaner, is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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Easily confused with

White-collared Foliage-gleanerAnabazenops fuscusThe white-collared foliage-gleaner is about 20 cm (7.9 in) long.

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