Genus Pseudocolaptes

 

Streaked Tuftedcheek - It occurs as a resident breeder in wet mountain forests, with many epiphytes, above 1500 m. It lays one white egg in a thickly lined old woodpecker nest or other tree cavity. One parent, probably the female, incubates the single white egg for about 29 days to hatching.

 

Buffy Tuftedcheek - It occurs as a resident breeder above 1600 m in wet mountain forests with many epiphytes. The female lays one white egg in a thickly lined old woodpecker nest. One parent, probably the female, incubates the single white egg for 29 days to hatching, covering the egg with leaves when she leaves the nest.

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Furnariidae
Genus : Pseudocolaptes