White-collared Foliage-gleaner Anabazenops fuscus

Brazilian name: trepador-coleira
White-collared Foliagegleaner, Intervales, São Paulo, Brazil, April 2004 - click for larger image Brazil

The White-collared Foliage-gleaner is a Brazilian endemic restricted to the south-east of Brazil. It is found in those remnants of the Atlantic Rain Forest that survive and is particularly associated with stands of bamboo within these forests.
White-collared Foliagegleaner, Intervales, São Paulo, Brazil, April 2004 - click for larger image It has a heavy bill which is wedge-shaped with an upturned lower mandible. Upperparts are brown with a highly contrasting white supercilium, neck and throat. Underparts are buffy-white and the tail is rufous.

It feeds on insects for which it gleans mainly on the nodes and leaves of bamboo.
White-collared Foliagegleaner, Parque do Zizo, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2006 - click for larger image There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto.
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