Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia ruficaudata)

Identification & Behavior: ~17 cm (6.6 in). The Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner has olive-brown upperparts and rump. The tail is contrastingly rufous. The throat is pale-buff grading to brownish towards the rest of the underparts. It has buffy streaking on the sides of the head and buffy superciliary from the eye. It forages in the canopy of the forest in Amazonia.  The very similar Rufous-rumped Foliage-Gleaner lacks the streaking on the sides of the head, and more importantly, forages in the understory of the forest.

Status: The Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner is uncommon and widespread in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 1100 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Limpia-Follaje de Cola Rufa.

Sub-species: Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia ruficaudata subflavescens), (Cabanis), 1873.  E Ecuador (very local, near the Andes) and E Peru.
(Anabacerthia ruficaudata ruficaudatum), (d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye), 1838.   the Guianas, NE & Amazonian Brazil (Amazonas E to N Maranhão), SE Peru (E Ucayali) and N Bolivia (S to Cochabamba and NE Beni).

Meaning of Name: Anabacerthia: Word consists of Genus Anabates Temminck, 1820, spinetail; genus Certhia Linnaeus, 1758, treecreeper. ruficaudata: L. rufus= red, ruddy, rufous and cauda= tail.

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