eBird Perú Checklist S10974259
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Observations
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Pasco Wood-Quail (undescribed form)
Number observed: 3 -
Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 1
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screech-owl sp.
Number observed: 1 -
Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 12
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 8
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 4
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 8
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Number observed: 6
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 8
Details
my original field notes, written an hour or so after the sighting:
"three wood-quails seen at very close range (5m) walking on a trail by small stream then scurrying into undergrowth. When seen w/ naked eye impression was somewhat like a large Chestnut-naped Antpitta, very dark below w/ rufous crown, seen through bins showed black underparts with small, well-defined white spots (like starry night sky), rufous crown looking rather bushy crested, and tan/brown underparts w/ black streaking"
At the time the sighting left me quite puzzled: according to range maps available to me the only Odontophorus that was supposed to be there at that was Rufous-breasted Wood-Quail, which was easily ruled out by underpart pattern. I mooted the possibility of Stripe-faced Wood-Quail, but not only is it supposed to occur further south, the illustrations available to me at the time (e.g. the Clements and Shany Peru guide) showed underparts that were much paler than on the birds I saw (concolorous with the crown, instead of much darker like in the birds I saw). After seeing the illustrations in the Shulemberg et al Peru guide and in Erize et al's Birds of South America: The Non-passerines, which show Stripe-faced Wood-Quail as having quite dark underparts (albeit not quite as dark as the impression I got in the field, which may have been affected by the dim light of the understory where I saw the brids), I now believe the birds I saw where Stripe-faced Wood-Quails. This would be a northward range extension of several hundred km from the Cordillera de Vilcabamba, although I think I have seen other online reports of this species from the Oxapampa area.