Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Phacellodomus rufifrons)

Other Names (World)
Rufous-fronted Thornbird, Common Thornbird, Plain Thornbird, Plain-fronted Thornbird, Red-fronted Thornbird, Northern Thornbird (inornatus, castilloi), Maranon Thornbird (peruvianus), Peruvian Thornbird (peruvianus)

Family
Furnariidae (Ovenbirds)

Size
15 - 17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Wied, 1821)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest and shrubland, subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, dry and moist savanna. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (38)...)

Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Phacellodomus rufifrons) [XC256713]
by Robson Silva e Silva from Nova Roma, Goi\u00e1s State, Brazil (song)

Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Phacellodomus rufifrons) [XC587499]
by Daniel Mello from Queimados, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (duet, song)

Subspecies
Considered by some authors to form a superspecies with Little Thornbird (Phacellodomus sibilatrix), but the two overlap considerably in distribution, and differ in body size and nest structure. Northern subspecies inornatus and castilloi sometimes treated as constituting a separate species. Subspecies peruvianus possibly also a separate species.

Proposed subspecies fargoi, from Paraguay and southern Brazil (Mato Grosso), described as browner above and with flanks and undertail-coverts more fulvous, but found to be not diagnosable by these characters and treated as synonym of sincipitalis.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

inornatus (Wied, 1821) - North-central Venezuela (south-eastern Falc�n, Yaracuy and Carabobo east to Miranda).
castilloi Phelps, Jr. and Aveledo, 1987 - Western and central Venezuela (Lara, Portuguesa, Barinas and Apure east to Sucre and Monagas) and north-eastern Colombia (Boyac�, Arauca, Casanare, Vichada, north-eastern Meta).
peruvianus Hellmayr, 1925 - Extreme southern Ecuador (southern Zamora-Chinchipe) and northern Peru (upper Mara��n Valley in Amazonas, Cajamarca and San Mart��n).
sincipitalis Cabanis, 1883 - Eastern Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz, Tarija), southern Brazil (southern Mato Grosso), north-central Paraguay and north-western Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, Tucum�n).
specularis Hellmayr, 1925 - North-eastern Brazil (Pernambuco).
rufifrons (Wied, 1821) - Eastern Brazil (southern Maranh�o, southern Piau��, Bahia, northern Minas Gerais).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Rufous-fronted Thornbird (Phacellodomus rufifrons) - 10 files

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