Freckle-breasted Thornbird
(Phacellodomus striaticollis)
Freckle-breasted Thornbird, near Cassino, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image near Cassino, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
August 2004

The Freckle-breasted Thornbird is distributed in north-east Argentina, Uruguay and south-east Brazil. It is found in scrub, marshland borders and gallery forest, invariably close to water.

Freckle-breasted Thornbird, near Cassino, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image The first photo shows the faint white freckling on the breast as well as the yellow iris and the brown crown with faint pale shaft streaking.

They are usually found in pairs skulking near the ground.
Freckle-breasted Thornbird, near Cassino, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image
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