Sharp-billed Treehunter Heliobletus contaminatus

Brazilian name: trepadorzinho
Sharp-billed Treehunter, Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image Brazil

The Sharp-billed Treehunter is distributed in southeast Brazil from Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul and into adjacent areas of Paraguay and Argentina. It is found in Atlantic Rain Forest from about sea-level to over 2,200 metres.
Sharp-billed Treehunter, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image It looks a bit like a xenops and is similar in size. It has a buffy supercilium and a dark line behind the eye. Upperparts are olive-brown with buff spots on the neck while below is pale buff with olive-brown streaks from the breast downwards.

There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto and additional information is available via Avibase .
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