Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia ruficaudata) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia ruficaudata), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia ruficaudata), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner sounds like

Sonogram of the Rufous-tailed 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: 'Cabañas Yankuam' 2 km S Las Orchideas, Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Napo: 3 km NW Guagua Sumaco, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Uuntsuants, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The rufous-tailed foliage-gleaner is 16 to 17 cm (6.3 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 21 to 32 g (0.74 to 1.1 oz). It is a medium-sized furnariid with a wedge-shaped bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a wide ochraceous buff eyering, a narrow buff-yellow supercilium, a dark olive line behind the eye, olive-brownish lores and ear coverts with yellowish buff flecks and streaks, and a buff-yellow malar area. Voice: One description of the rufous-tailed foliage-gleaner's song is "a loud, staccato series of up to 25 'te' or 'ke' notes, descends and accelerates at end, or on same pitch, accelerating, then decelerating slightly at end". It also sings a "more variable 'wt-pt-pt, wit-wit-wit, d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d' ".

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When to see the Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner

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

Where to see the Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner

Regular range

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Ecuador Brazil Colombia Bolivia Suriname Venezuela Guyana French Guiana

About the Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner

The rufous-tailed foliage-gleaner is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and possibly French Guiana.

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Easily confused with

White-browed Foliage-gleanerAnabacerthia amaurotisThe white-browed foliage-gleaner is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long.

Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleanerAnabacerthia lichtensteiniThe 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).

Scaly-throated Foliage-gleanerAnabacerthia variegaticepsThe scaly-throated foliage-gleaner is 15 to 17 cm (5.9 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 19 to 25 g (0.67 to 0.88 oz).

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