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Spot-breasted Thornbird
Phacellodomus maculipectus Cabanis, 1883
Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
Spot-breasted Thornbird, Phacellodomus maculipectus, is a passerine in the ovenbird family, found in south-western Bolivia and north-western Argentina. It was described by Cabanis in 1883. This is a monotypic thornbird with the sexes alike. It lives in dry to moderately moist montane woodland and scrub, mainly between 1,000 and 2,500 m, though it can reach 3,100 m locally. It is a year-round resident. Its breeding season begins in September, and it makes a hanging nest of thorny sticks lined with grass.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: c Bolivia to nw Argentina
