Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner

Anabacerthia lichtensteini

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCavity nestSmall · 21 g

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The ochre-breasted foliage-gleaner is 15 to 17 cm (5.9 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 18 to 24 g (0.63 to 0.85 oz). It is a medium-sized furnariid with a wedge-shaped bill that is the shortest in its genus. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have an ochraceous eye ring and sharply defined supercilium, a dark brownish band behind the eye, dull rufous-ochre ear coverts, and pale brownish lores. Their crown is dull gray-brown with vague paler streaks, their back rufescent brown, and their rump and uppertail coverts a slightly lighter rufescent brown. Voice: The ochre-breasted foliage-gleaner's song is a "series of up to 10 estr. high, piercing 'zipzip---' notes". Its call is a "short, very high, inhaled trill".

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When to see the Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner

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

Where to see the Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner

The ochre-breasted foliage-gleaner is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

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