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Rufous-tailed Attila
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Rufous-tailed Attila
Attila phoenicurus
The rufous-tailed attila (Attila phoenicurus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is a breeding resident in southern Paraguay and Brazil; also extreme northeast Argentina. It migrates northwestwards into the central Amazon Basin of North Region, Brazil in the austral winter and is also found in northeast border regions Bolivia and southern Venezuela during its wintering. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical
From the article Rufous-tailed attila on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The rufous-tailed attila is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long and weighs about 32 to 34.5 g (1.1 to 1.2 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark gray crown, face, and nape. Their upperparts are mostly deep rufous with slightly paler uppertail coverts and tail. Their wings are mostly deep rufous with blackish primaries. They have a small whitish area just below the bill. Their throat and underparts are mostly cinnamon-rufous with a wide band of deep rufous across the breast; the band has indistinct edges. They have a dark iris.
Range & habitat
The rufous-tailed attila is normally found in a wide swath from northwestern Brazil south to southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northern Argentina. It has reached southern Venezuela as a vagrant and there is at least one unconfirmed sight record in Bolivia. It primarily inhabits the interior and edges of humid secondary forest, especially areas dominated by Araucaria, and also scrublands. In elevation it reaches 1,500 m (4,900 ft).
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
The rufous-tailed attila's diet has not been studied. It feeds at all levels of the forest though apparently more often from its mid-story up.
Wikipedia: “Feeding”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 16764.