Patagonian Forest Earthcreeper

About the Patagonian Forest Earthcreeper

The Patagonian forest earthcreeper (Upucerthia saturatior), also known as the forest earthcreeper, is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina and Chile.

What is now the Patagonian forest earthcreeper was described in 1900 by W.E.D. Scott, but was long treated as a subspecies of the scale-throated earthcreeper. A 2009 paper provided the data to confirm it as a separate species.

The Patagonian forest earthcreeper is monotypic. The Patagonian forest earthcreeper is 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) long. It is a large earthcreeper with a medium-length and moderately decurved bill. The sexes' plumages are alike. Adults have a whitish supercilium on an otherwise grayish white and dark grayish brown face. Their crown is a dull dark grayish brown with some fainter mottling. Their nape, back, rump, and uppertail coverts are dark brownish gray with an olive tinge. Their tail's central feathers are dusky brown and the rest blackish brown. Their wings are grayish brown with dull rufous bases to the flight feathers. Their chin is whitish, their throat whitish with thin dark bars, their... Wikipedia →