Rufous Gnateater Conopophaga lineata

Brazilian name: Chupa-dente

Female Rufous Gnateater, Camacã, Bahia, Brazil, March 2004 - click for larger image Brazil

The Rufous Gnateater is distributed in eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and north-east Argentina. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found, usually perched close to the ground, in the undergrowth of humid forest and secondary growth.

Female Rufous Gnateater, Camacã, Bahia, Brazil, March 2004 - click for larger image It is brown above with a grey supercilium and whitish tuft behind the eye while the underparts are rufous-orange with white on the centre of the belly. The lower mandible of the bill is flesh-coloured. These photos are of females and they have a less obvious supercilium then the males.

They feed on insects in the leaf litter and foliage on or near the ground.

Female Rufous Gnateater, Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil, July 2002 - click for larger image
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