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What the Short-billed Leaftosser sounds like
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The short-billed leaftosser is a stocky bird with a short tail, and has the shortest bill of the Sclerurus leaftossers. It is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 19 to 25 g (0.67 to 0.88 oz). The sexes are alike. The nominate subspecies S. r. rufigularis has a dark brown face, sometimes with paler lores and supercilium. Its crown is dark brown with a reddish cast. Its back is dark reddish brown, its rump chestnut-brown, and its uppertail coverts darker chestnut-brown. Its wings are dark reddish brown and its tail is sooty blackish with some faint reddish brown. Voice: The short-billed leaftosser's song is "a high-pitched fast series of notes" that successively descend, ascend and accelerate, and become level and slower. Its call has been described as "suip" and as an extremely high "siew siew".
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When to see the Short-billed Leaftosser
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Short-billed Leaftosser
The map shades 8 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Short-billed Leaftosser
The short-billed leaftosser is a species of bird in the subfamily Sclerurinae, the leaftossers and miners, of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
Black-tailed LeaftosserSclerurus caudacutusThe black-tailed leaftosser is the darkest and dullest member of genus Sclerurus.
Dusky LeaftosserSclerurus obscuriorThe dusky leaftosser is 15 to 17 cm (5.9 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 20 to 30 g (0.71 to 1.1 oz).
Grey-throated LeaftosserSclerurus albigularisThe grey-throated leaftosser is one of the larger members of genus Sclerurus.
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