The Ruddy Foliage-gleaner (Automolus rubiginosus) 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. Its range is highly disjunct

Disjunct distribution

In biology, a taxon with a disjunct distribution is one that has two or more groups that are related but widely separated from each other geographically...

, with populations in the highlands of Mexico

Mexico

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 and Central America

Central America

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, and lowlands and foothills in the Chocó, eastern Andes

Andes

The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...

, and western and north-eastern Amazon Basin

Amazon Basin

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. It is found in forest. There are distinct vocal variations throughout its range, suggesting that more than one species is involved, and one such population has recently been split from the Ruddy Foliage-gleaner as the Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner

Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner

The Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is endemic to Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Ruddy Foliage-gleaner. Evidence suggests that it possibly should be moved to the genus Hylocryptus....

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