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What the Rufous-backed Stipplethroat sounds like
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The rufous-backed stipplethroat is 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 8 to 10.5 g (0.28 to 0.37 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies E. h. haematonota have a mostly light gray face and a black throat with white spots. They have a grayish olive-brown crown and mantle, and deep rufous back, tail, and flight feathers. Their wing coverts are blackish brown with pale buff or white tips. Their breast and upper belly are light gray and their lower belly, flanks, and undertail coverts yellow-brown. Adult females have a mostly light yellowish olive-brown face and underparts. Voice: The rufous-backed stipplethroat's song is an "extr. high, very thin, descending, rapid shiver 'tsititi---' " that lasts two or three seconds. Its calls include a "doublet of abrupt notes, second higher-pitched", an "abrupt single note", and a "high-pitched rattle".
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When to see the Rufous-backed Stipplethroat
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Rufous-backed Stipplethroat
The map shades 6 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.
Recorded as a rare visitor in French Guiana.
About the Rufous-backed Stipplethroat
The rufous-backed stipplethroat is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In its complex taxonomic history, Epinecrophylla haematonota has also been called the rufous-backed antwren, stipple-throated antwren, Napo stipple-throated antwren, and western stipple-throated antwren.
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Easily confused with
Brown-bellied StipplethroatEpinecrophylla gutturalisThe brown-bellied stipplethroat is 9.5 to 10.5 cm (3.7 to 4.1 in) long and weighs 7.5 to 9.5 g (0.26 to 0.34 oz).
Foothill StipplethroatEpinecrophylla spodionotaThe foothill stipplethroat is 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 9 to 10.5 g (0.32 to 0.37 oz).
White-eyed StipplethroatEpinecrophylla leucophthalmaThe white-eyed stipplethroat is 9.5 to 11 cm (3.7 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 8 to 10.5 g (0.28 to 0.37 oz).
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