Pale-legged hornero
Pale-legged hornero | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Furnariidae |
Genus: | Furnarius |
Species: | F. leucopus
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Binomial name | |
Furnarius leucopus Swainson, 1838
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The pale-legged hornero (Furnarius leucopus) is a species of
Taxonomy and systematics
The pale-legged hornero's taxonomy is unsettled. The
- F. l. leucopus Swainson, 1838
- F. l. tricolor Giebel, 1868
- F. l. araguaiae Pinto & Camargo, 1952
- F. l. assimilis Cabanis & Heine, 1860
The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (SACC) adds three others, F. l. cinnamomeus (Lesson, 1844), F. l. longirostris (von Pelzeln, 1856), and F. l. endoecus (Cory, 1919).[5] The IOC, HBW, and Clements treat cinnamomeus as the species Pacific hornero and the other two as the Caribbean hornero.[2][3][4] Early authors (e.g. Chapman) had treated them separately.[6] The SACC accepts that cinnamomeus may deserve species rank but declined to make the split due to "insufficient published data".[5]
Some authors have treated what is now the
This article follows the four-subspecies model.
Description
The pale-legged hornero is 15 to 18 cm (5.9 to 7.1 in) long and weighs about 37 to 49 g (1.3 to 1.7 oz). It is a medium-sized hornero with a long and nearly straight bill. The sexes' plumages are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies F. l. leucopus have a wide whitish
Subspecies F. l. tricolor has a grayer crown, more ochraceous back, and paler wings and tail than the nominate. F. l. assimilis has a lighter, more ochraceous rump, wings, and tail than tricolor, and a paler wing band. F. l. araguaiae is intermediate between tricolor and assimilis, with a brighter back than the former and a smaller wing band.[7][8]
Distribution and habitat
The subspecies of the pale-legged hornero are found thus:[7]
- F. l. leucopus: along the rios Negro and Branco in northern Brazil and in southwestern Guyana
- F. l. tricolor: eastern Peru, western Brazil east into Pará, and into Boliva to Santa Cruz Department; one record in southeastern Ecuador
- F. l. araguaiae: western Tocantins and eastern Mato Grosso states in central Brazil along the rios Araguaia and das Mortes
- F. l. assimilis: eastern and southern Brazil between Maranhão, Pernambuco, and Mato Grosso do Sul, and extreme southeastern Bolivia
The pale-legged hornero inhabits a wide variety of semi-open to open landscapes. These include forest and woodlands along rivers (gallery forest), the edges of secondary forest, agricultural areas, and parks and gardens in towns. It favors humid areas, usually near water. In elevation it mostly occurs below 1,100 m (3,600 ft), though it seldom exceeds 400 m (1,300 ft) in Bolivia and locally reaches 1,700 m (5,600 ft) in Peru.[7][8]
Behavior
Movement
The pale-legged hornero is essentially a year-round resident throughout its range. The record in Ecuador and a few others outside its usual range could be "more or less local movements, sometimes following rivers, or otherwise overlooked populations?".[7]
Feeding
The pale-legged hornero's diet is mostly a variety of arthropods. It also includes other small invertebrates like snails and there is one record of an individual eating a toad. It forages singly or in pairs while walking on the ground, turning over leaves to glean its prey.[7]
Breeding
The pale-legged hornero's breeding biology is "[s]urprisingly poorly known for such a relatively abundant, noisy, and conspicuous species". Its breeding season has not been defined. Though its nest has not been formally described, it is an "oven" of clay and animal dung with an inner chamber lined with dry plant matter. Both members of a pair construct it, typically on a tree branch but also on horizontal structures like the crossbars of utility poles. The clutch size is not known. The incubation period at one nest in Peru was 16 to 17 days and the time to fledging 26 to 33 days. Both parents provisioned the nestlings.[7]
Vocalization
The pale-legged hornero's song is a "long series of loud, explosive, piercing, staccato notes, which decelerates and descends in pitch...rendered PIPIPI’PI’pi’pi-pi-pi-pi-pi pee pee pu". Its calls are "a loud, rich, scratchy or reedy chet or kyeek, or a descending cheeop".[7]
Status
The
References
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- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". IOC World Bird List. v 13.2. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
- ^ a b HBW and BirdLife International (2022) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 7. Available at: https://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v7_Dec22.zip retrieved December 13, 2022
- ^ a b Clements, J. F., P.C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ retrieved October 28, 2023
- ^ a b Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 28 September 2023. A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithological Society. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm retrieved October 20, 2023
- ^ Chapman, F. M. (1926). The distribution of bird-life in Ecuador: a contribution to a study of the origin of Andean bird-life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 55:1–784.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kirwan, G. M., J. del Hoyo, J. V. Remsen, Jr., N. Collar, and E. de Juana (2021). Pale-legged Hornero (Furnarius leucopus), version 2.0. In Birds of the World (B. K. Keeney, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.palhor2.02 retrieved August 22, 2023
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