Orange-breasted thornbird | |
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Orange-breasted thornbird at Reserva Guainumbi, São Luís do Paraitinga, São Paulo State, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Furnariidae |
Genus: | Phacellodomus |
Species: | P. ferrugineigula |
Binomial name | |
Phacellodomus ferrugineigula (Pelzeln, 1858) |
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Synonyms | |
P. erythrophthalmus ferrugineigula |
P. erythrophthalmus ferrugineigula
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 adjacent northern 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.