October 2005
The Ash-throated Casiornis is a Brazilian endemic distributed in north-east Brazil south of the Amazon from the Tapajós to Paraíba, Pernambuco and south to north-east Mato Grosso.
It is normally found in caatinga or heavily wooded cerrado and campina but this bird was in gallery forest.
It has a rufous crown, wings and tail, a pale greyish-pink throat and breast and a creamy-yellow belly. The bill is dark with a flesh-pink base.
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