Striped treehunter
The striped treehunter is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy and systematics
The striped treehunter shares genus Thripadectes with six other treehunters. It has these three subspecies:- T. h. holostictus
- T. h. moderatus Zimmer, JT, 1935
- T. h. striatidorsus
Description
The striped treehunter is long and weighs. It is a bulky, dark furnariid with a thrush-like shape. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies T. h. holostictus have a mostly blackish-brown face with buff streaks, some of which merge to form a supercilium. Their lores are grizzled blackish brown and buff. Their crown is blackish brown with strong buff streaks. Their back is dark brown with buff streaks and their rump dull dark brown that blends to reddish brown uppertail coverts. Their wings are rich brown and their tail dark chestnut-brown. Their throat is tawny-buff with dark feather borders that give a streaked appearance that extends onto the upper breast. The rest of their breast is medium brown with pale buff streaks, their belly similar to the lower breast but becomes unstreaked by its bottom, their flanks darker and more rufescent, and their undertail coverts darker than the belly with a reddish brown tinge. Their iris is brown to dark brown, their bill black with sometimes a lighter base to the mandible, and their legs and feet olive-brown to greenish gray. Juveniles have narrower streaks on the upperparts than adults and a mottled, rather than streaked, belly. Subspecies T. h. striatidorsus has slightly more reddish wings, more rufescent flanks, and browner edges to the throat feathers than the nominate. T. h. moderatus has more rufescent underparts with narrower streaks than the nominate; the streaks have a rufescent tinge and do not extend as far. The edges of its throat feathers are more olive than sooty.Distribution and habitat
The striped treehunter has a somewhat disjunct distribution. The nominate subspecies is found from the Andes of western Venezuela through Colombia's Eastern and Central Andes and eastern Ecuador into Peru as far as the Department of La Libertad. Subspecies T. h. striatidorsus is found from Cauca Department in Colombia's Western Andes south into western Ecuador as far as Chimborazo Province. T. h. moderatus is found in the Andes from the Department of Huánuco in Peru south and east into central Bolivia.The striped treehunter inhabits montane evergreen forest in the subtropical zone and highly favors thickets of Chusquea bamboo, though it also occurs locally in secondary forest. It tends to stay in the undergrowth. In elevation it mostly ranges from. In Colombia it occurs as low as and as high as. In Ecuador it occurs as high as.