White-eyed Foliage-gleaner Automolus leucophthalmus

Brazilian name: Barranqueiro-de-olho-branco

White-eyed Foliage-gleaner, Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 2008

The White-eyed Foliage-gleaner is distributed down the east of Brazil and into adjacent areas of Paraguay and Argentina. It is found in the undergrowth of Atlantic Rain Forest and in secondary woodland often associated with bamboo.

It is a dark brown foliage-gleaner with rump and tail a bright cinnamon-rufous and with a contrasting white throat and a white eye. Because it can survive in secondary growth it is still quite widespread.

It feeds on beetles and insects which it gleans from dead leaves and viny thickets and it is usually found as part of a mixed flock.

White-eyed Foliage-gleaner, Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image  It builds its nest in a chamber at the end of a horizontal tunnel which it excavates itself in an earth bank.

There are recordings on xeno-canto and additional information available via Avibase. There is also a page with excellent photos on Wikiaves.

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