Orange-breasted thornbird

The orange-breasted thornbird (Phacellodomus ferrugineigula), also known as the red-eyed thornbird, is a species of bird in the family Furnariidae. It is found in forest and woodland, especially near water, in southeastern Brazil and adjacent northern Uruguay.[3]

Adult

Orange-breasted thornbird
at Reserva Guainumbi, São Luís do Paraitinga, São Paulo State, Brazil
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Genus:	Phacellodomus
Species:	P. ferrugineigula
Binomial name
Phacellodomus ferrugineigula (Pelzeln, 1858)
Synonyms[2]
P. erythrophthalmus ferrugineigula

It was formerly considered a subspecies of P. erythropthalmus, but under the common name red-eyed thornbird.[2] When split, P. erythropthalmus is known as the orange-eyed thornbird. Unlike that species, the orange-breasted thornbird has dark reddish-brown eyes, extensive rufous to the underparts, a relatively large rufous crown-patch, and dark central rectrices (which contrast with the rufous outer rectrices). The two also have different voices and are locally sympatric in São Paulo without evidence of interbreeding.[4]