The Orange-breasted Thornbird (Phacellodomus ferrugineigula), also known as the Red-eyed Thornbird, is a species of bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 in the Furnariidae family. It is found in forest and woodland, especially near water, in south-eastern Brazil

Brazil

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 and Uruguay

Uruguay

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.

It was formerly considered a subspecies

Subspecies

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 of P. erythropthalmus

Orange-eyed Thornbird

The Orange-eyed Thornbird is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is endemic to Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil. It formerly included P. ferrugineigula as a subspecies, but under the common name Red-eyed Thornbird...

, but under the common name

Common name

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 Red-eyed Thornbird. 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

Rufous

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 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

São Paulo (state)

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 without evidence of interbreeding.