Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus), photo 1 — Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0

Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus), photo 2 — Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus), photo 3 — Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus), photo 4 — Photo: Scott Loarie · CC0

Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus), photo 7 — Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Dan Vickers, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Flammulated Treehunter (Thripadectes flammulatus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Flammulated Treehunter sounds like

Sonogram of the Flammulated Treehunter: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: camp on Ventanilla-Christopher Parson trail, Reserva Tapichalaca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Pichincha: Tandayapa ridge 3 km SSW Tandayapa, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Tungurahua: nw-slope of Volcán Tungurahua, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The flammulated treehunter is 24 to 25 cm (9.4 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 50 to 62 g (1.8 to 2.2 oz). It is the largest and most strikingly patterned member of its genus. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a blackish face and crown with sharp tawny-buff streaks that are rather golden on the crown. Their lores are speckled with blackish and golden buff. Their back is browner than the face and crown, with its blackish only along the feather shafts, and it blends to the rich medium brown rump. Their uppertail coverts are dark reddish brown. Voice: The flammulated treehunter's song is "a series of grating notes that start as a stutter, then accelerates and becomes louder". Its contact call is "an emphatic sharp 'check' ".

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When to see the Flammulated Treehunter

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Flammulated Treehunter

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 2 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.

Colombia Ecuador

Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru, Venezuela.

About the Flammulated Treehunter

The flammulated treehunter is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

Black-billed TreehunterThripadectes melanorhynchusThe black-billed treehunter is 20 to 20.5 cm (7.9 to 8.1 in) long and weighs 39 to 46 g (1.4 to 1.6 oz).

Streak-breasted TreehunterThripadectes rufobrunneusThe streak-breasted treehunter is 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) long and weighs 48 to 54 g (1.7 to 1.9 oz).

Uniform TreehunterThripadectes ignobilisThe uniform treehunter is 19 to 20 cm (7.5 to 7.9 in) long and weighs between 48 and 51 g (1.7 and 1.8 oz).

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