White-browed Foliage-gleaner

Overview

The white-browed foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia amaurotis) is a species of bird in the ovenbird family Furnariidae, native to the Atlantic Forest. It is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN, though its population is believed to be decreasing due to habitat loss.

Identification

• Length of 15 to 16 cm with a wedge-shaped bill.
• Wide buff-white supercilium and a dark brown band behind the eye, with an indistinct brown 'moustache' on a light buff face.
• Rich medium brown back with rufous uppertail coverts and a rufous tail that has bare shafts at the ends.
• Song consists of a short, accelerated, ascending and descending series of very high 'seep' notes.

Habitat

Found in southeastern Brazil from Espírito Santo south to Rio Grande do Sul, and into Argentina's Misiones Province. It inhabits montane evergreen and tall secondary forests in most of its range, but lowland and hilly forests at the southern end. Elevations range mostly from 600 to 1,500 m, though locally found down to sea level.

Diet

Feeds on adult and larval arthropods, usually foraging in mixed-species flocks within the forest understory or up to the subcanopy. It gleans, probes, and pecks for prey in dead leaves, debris, and branches, occasionally sallying short distances from perches.

Did you know?

Nothing is known about the breeding biology of this species.