Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner (Dendroma erythroptera) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner (Dendroma erythroptera), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Abby Darrah, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Abby Darrah · cc-by

Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner (Dendroma erythroptera), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Abby Darrah, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner (Dendroma erythroptera), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner (Dendroma erythroptera), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Claude Kolwelter, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner sounds like

Sonogram of the Chestnut-winged 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 · Orellana: 'Maxus' road km 37 (27 km SSE Pompeya), Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The chestnut-winged foliage-gleaner is 17 to 19 cm (6.7 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 28 to 36 g (0.99 to 1.3 oz). It is a largish furnariid. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a wide tawny eyering, an indistinct tawny supercilium that narrows past the eye, a dark gray area behind the eye, brownish lores, dull brownish ear coverts, and ochraceous yellow malars. Their crown is dull brownish gray with buff streaks. Their back and rump are dull grayish brown and their uppertail coverts are slightly paler. Voice: The chestnut-winged foliage-gleaner's song is a two- or three-second "fast, buzzy, slightly accelerating, quavering or slightly descending trill".

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When to see the Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Brazil Ecuador Colombia Bolivia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Venezuela.

About the Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner

The chestnut-winged foliage-gleaner is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

Buff-fronted Foliage-gleanerDendroma rufaThe buff-fronted foliage-gleaner is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 25 to 36 g (0.88 to 1.3 oz).

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