Orange-breasted Thornbird

Orange-breasted Thornbird
Orange-breasted Thornbird
At Reserva Guainumbi, São Luís do Paraitinga, São Paulo, Brazil
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Genus: Phacellodomus
Species: P. ferrugineigula
Binomial name
Phacellodomus ferrugineigula
(Pelzeln, 1858)

The Orange-breasted Thornbird (Phacellodomus ferrugineigula), also known as the Red-eyed Thornbird, is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in forest and woodland, especially near water, in south-eastern Brazil and Uruguay.

It was formerly considered a subspecies of P. erythropthalmus, but under the common name Red-eyed Thornbird. When split, P. erythropthalmus is known as the Orange-eyed Thornbird. Unlike that species, the Orange-breasted Thornbird has dark reddish-brown eyes, extensive rufous to the underparts, a relatively large rufous crown-patch, and dark central rectrices (which contrast with the rufous outer rectrices). The two also have different voices and are locally sympatric in São Paulo without evidence of interbreeding.[2]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2008). Phacellodomus ferrugineigula. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 June 2009.
  2. ^ Simon, J. E., Pacheco, J. F., Whitney, B. M., Mattos, G. T., & Gagliardi, R. L. (2008). Phacellodomus ferrugineigula (Pelzeln, 1858) (Aves: Furnariidae) é uma espécie válida. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 16(2): 107-124.