Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner

Overview

The ochre-breasted foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia lichtensteini) is a species of bird in the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is a year-round resident found in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina.

Identification

• Length of 15 to 17 cm with a weight of 18 to 24 g, featuring a wedge-shaped bill that is the shortest in its genus.
• Plumage includes a dull gray-brown crown, rufescent brown back, and bright ochraceous buff throat and upper breast.
• Legs and feet are greenish gray, with brown irises and a brownish gray maxilla.
• Song consists of a series of up to 10 high, piercing 'zipzip---' notes, accompanied by a short, very high, inhaled trill as a call.

Habitat

This species inhabits montane evergreen forest and tall secondary forest at elevations ranging from sea level to 800 m. Its distribution covers southeastern Brazil from Bahia and Goiás south to Rio Grande do Sul, eastern Paraguay, and Misiones Province in northeastern Argentina.

Diet

Feeding on arthropods, the ochre-breasted foliage-gleaner usually forages in mixed-species flocks from the forest's mid-storey to the canopy. It acrobatically gleans and pulls for prey in dead leaves, debris, and branches.

Did you know?

Despite extensive deforestation within its relatively small range that has dramatically reduced available habitat, the species seems able to persist in degraded forest fragments.