Birds of the World

    PASSERIFORMES: Furnariidae (Ovenbirds)  
Genus: Sclerurus (7 species)

Sclerurus is a genus of 'ovenbirds' (family Furnariidae) which as the name suggests stay on the forest floor and look under leaves, and are generally difficult to see well.


Grey-throated Leaftosser
Grey-throated Leaftosser (Sclerurus albigularis propinquus) Near Threatened
Range: MA, SA: Costa Rica to w, n SA
ProAves El Dorado Reserve, Santa Marta Sierra Nevada, Magdalena, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Grey-throated Leaftosser
Grey-throated Leaftosser (Sclerurus albigularis) Near Threatened
Range: MA, SA: Costa Rica to w, n SA
Padilla, Bolivia  
   
Photograph by Joe Tobias   © All Rights Reserved.


Black-tailed Leaftosser
Black-tailed Leaftosser (Sclerurus caudacutus brunneus)
Range: SA: Amazonia and e Brazil
Los Amigos Biological Station, Peru  
   
Photograph by Joe Tobias   © All Rights Reserved.


Scaly-throated Leaftosser
Scaly-throated Leaftosser (Sclerurus guatemalensis salvini)
Range: MA, SA: s Mexico to Colombia and w Ecuador
Darien National Park, Panama  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Tawny-throated Leaftosser
Tawny-throated Leaftosser (Sclerurus mexicanus mexicanus)
Range: MA: s Mexico to w Panama
El Triunfo, Chiapas, Mexico  
   
Photograph by Jorge Montejo     Copyright and usage info


Dusky Leaftosser
Dusky Leaftosser (Sclerurus obscurior macconnelli)
Range: MA, SA: e Panama to e Brazil
Palmas, TO, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte   © All Rights Reserved.

Dusky Leaftosser
Dusky Leaftosser (Sclerurus obscurior obscurior)
Range: MA, SA: e Panama to e Brazil
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
Short-billed Leaftosser (Sclerurus rufigularis)
Range: SA: Amazonia
Brazil  
   
Photograph by Philip Stouffer   © All Rights Reserved.


Rufous-breasted Leaftosser
Rufous-breasted Leaftosser (Sclerurus scansor scansor)
Range: SA: e Brazil and se SA
Parque Estadual da Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Dario Sanches     Copyright and usage info

Rufous-breasted Leaftosser
Rufous-breasted Leaftosser (Sclerurus scansor cearensis)
Range: SA: e Brazil and se SA
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).


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