Birds of Brazil - Sclerurus


Grey-throated Leaftosser (Sclerurus albigularis propinquus) ProAves El Dorado Reserve, Santa Marta Sierra Nevada, Magdalena, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Grey-throated Leaftosser (Sclerurus albigularis) Padilla, Bolivia
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.


Black-tailed Leaftosser (Sclerurus caudacutus brunneus) Los Amigos Biological Station, Peru
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Dusky Leaftosser (Sclerurus obscurior macconnelli) Palmas, TO, Brazil
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte © All Rights Reserved.


Dusky Leaftosser (Sclerurus obscurior obscurior) RN La Planada, Nariño, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Split from the Tawny-throated Leaftosser in Central America, but visually virtually identical.
Perhaps starting a tunnel nest in a bank, which can be 50 cm. long (HBW).


Short-billed Leaftosser (Sclerurus rufigularis) Brazil
Photograph by Philip Stouffer © All Rights Reserved.


Rufous-breasted Leaftosser (Sclerurus scansor scansor) Parque Estadual da Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil
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Rufous-breasted Leaftosser (Sclerurus scansor cearensis) Pico Alto, Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.

Note that the ceara subspecies lacks the throat streaking of the nominate subspecies, is brighter rufous overall, and has a somewhat different song (Athanas).