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Band-tailed Earth-Creeper
Eremobius phoenicurus

DESCRIPTION:
Band-tailed Earth-Creeper
Bandurrita de Cola Negra
Eremobius phoenicurus
Length: 190mm. Sexes alike. Bill greyish brown with base of mandible grey; iris dark brown; forehead, crown, sides of neck and upperparts greyish brown. Eyebrow whitish, auriculars pale chestnut, throat and foreneck whitish, breast greyish brown with longitudinal whitish spots, underparts and undertail coverts ochraceous buff. Wing coverts greyish brown, remiges greyish brown with rusty cinnamon bar; axillaries whitish. Rectrices with two central tail feathers blackish brown, remainder reddish to base and blackish to distal half. Legs blackish. Average weight: 29g. Similar species: its customs and attitude are very similar to that of the Straight-billed Earth-Creeper (Upucerthia ruficauda), it differs from it by its greyish brown shades and black in the tail. Habitat and behaviour: it frequents shrubby steppes, where it moves in quick dashes and short low flights. When flushed it lifts its tail and scurries daintily behind a thicket. It forages on the ground and on shrubs. The voice is a modulated whistle. The nest is built with sticks in thorny shrubs; clutch size is up to four white eggs. Range: from Neuquén and Río Negro to Santa Cruz, within the steppe region.
Illustrated Handbook of the Birds of Patagonia
Kindness: Kovacs Family
 
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