About Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus (Wied-Neuwied, 1821)
The orange-eyed thornbird, with the scientific name Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus (Wied-Neuwied, 1821), is 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) long and weighs about 21 to 27 g (0.74 to 0.95 oz). It is a medium-sized thornbird, and males and females have identical plumage. Adults have an otherwise rufescent-brownish face marked with an indistinct rufous-brown supercilium, darker brown lores, and a darker brown stripe behind the eye. Their forehead and forecrown are bright rufous. The remainder of their crown, their back, and their rump are dark brownish olive, while their uppertail coverts are chestnut-tinged brownish olive. Their wings are mostly warm brown, brighter at the base of the flight feathers and duller at feather tips. Their tail is rufous. Their throat is dark rufous, and the rest of their underparts are olivaceous brown, paler in the center of the belly. Their iris is orange, their maxilla is black, their mandible is gray, and their legs and feet range from greenish gray to gray. The orange-eyed thornbird is distributed in southeastern Brazil, from southern Bahia south to northeastern São Paulo state. Within the Atlantic Forest biome, it primarily lives in humid lowland and montane evergreen forest and secondary forest, but it can also be found near small marshes, along watercourses in woodlands, and in Eucalyptus plantations and urban areas. In terms of elevation, it mostly occurs from near sea level to 850 m (2,800 ft), but is found locally up to 1,700 m (5,600 ft) in the southern part of its range.
