Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner Dendroma erythroptera Scientific name definitions

The Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner is arguably the most distinctively plumaged of the Amazonian Philydor species, especially due to its bright rufous wings and tail contrasting strongly with the grayish-brown back and crown, with a well-marked buffy loral region and throat, and a dull brownish breast, becoming paler posteriorly. This foliage-gleaner is principally distributed across southern Amazonia, although its range extends north to southeast Colombia, and there is also an apparently isolated population in southern Venezuela. Throughout, it inhabits lowland evergreen forest, especially on terra firme, although the species appears to range more consistently into seasonally flooded areas in the north of its range. Behavior seems typical of the genus as a whole, with the Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner being usually encountered in pairs within mixed-species foraging flocks.

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