Tawny-throated Leaftosser (Sclerurus mexicanus)
About the Tawny-throated Leaftosser
The tawny-throated leaftosser (Sclerurus mexicanus) is a tropical American bird species in subfamily Sclerurinae, the leaftossers and miners, of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is also known as the Middle American leaftosser and less frequently as tawny-throated leafscraper, Mexican leaftosser or Mexican leafscraper. It is found from Mexico to Panama. The tawny-throated leaftosser's taxonomy is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy assign it two subspecies, the nominate S. m. mexicanus (Sclater, PL, 1857) and S. m. pullus (Bangs, 1902). The North American Classification Committee of the AOS and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) retain an older treatment. They include these five subspecies with the other two:
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Listed as recorded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Black-tailed LeaftosserSclerurus caudacutusrecording
- Dusky LeaftosserSclerurus obscuriorrecording
- Grey-throated LeaftosserSclerurus albigularisrecording
- Scaly-throated LeaftosserSclerurus guatemalensisrecording
- Short-billed LeaftosserSclerurus rufigularisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.