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What the Striped Treehunter sounds like
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The striped treehunter is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long and weighs 38 to 49 g (1.3 to 1.7 oz). It is a bulky, dark furnariid with a thrush-like shape. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies T. h. holostictus have a mostly blackish-brown face with buff streaks, some of which merge to form a supercilium. Their lores are grizzled blackish brown and buff. Their crown is blackish brown with strong buff streaks. Their back is dark brown with buff streaks and their rump dull dark brown that blends to reddish brown uppertail coverts. Voice: The striped treehunter's song is "a fast series of nasal chattering notes, slightly descending and decelerating". Its call is a sharp "kwi-di-dik".
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When to see the Striped Treehunter
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 Striped Treehunter
The map shades 4 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 Venezuela.
About the Striped Treehunter
The striped treehunter is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
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).
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).
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).
Side by side: Streak-capped Treehunter vs Striped Treehunter · Striped Treehunter vs Uniform Treehunter · Streak-breasted Treehunter vs Striped Treehunter · Black-billed Treehunter vs Striped Treehunter
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