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Orange eyed thornbird

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Kingdom
  
Genus
  
Higher classification
  
Phacellodomus

Order
  
Passerine

Family
  
Furnariidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

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Scientific name
  
Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus

Similar
  
Orange‑breasted thornbird, Bird, Phacellodomus, Ovenbird, Passerine

Orange eyed thornbird phacellodomus erythrophthalmus wied 1821


The orange-eyed thornbird (Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus) is a species of bird in the family Furnariidae. It is endemic to Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil. It formerly included P. ferrugineigula as a subspecies, but under the common name red-eyed thornbird. After the two were split, that English name was confusingly used for both species briefly, although it only really is fitting for P. ferrugineigula. To avoid this confusion, P. ferrugineigula is now generally called the orange-breasted thornbird. Unlike that species, the orange-eyed thornbird has conspicuously bright orange eyes, far less rufous below and on the crown (essentially restricted to the throat and frontlet), and the entire tail rufous. The two also have different voices and are locally sympatric in São Paulo without evidence of interbreeding.

References

Orange-eyed thornbird Wikipedia


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