Nystalus obamai Whitney, Piacentini, Schunck, Aleixo, Sousa, Silveira & Rêgo, 2013

Machado, Tatiana Lemos da Silva, Marques de Oliveira, Uéslei, Santos do Nascimento, Sheiliane, Santos, Marcos Pérsio Dantas & Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, 2021, Preliminary survey of avifauna of the Estação Ecológica do Cuniã in Porto Velho, northern Brazil, Check List 17 (1), pp. 289-310 : 300

Nystalus obamai Whitney, Piacentini, Schunck, Aleixo, Sousa, Silveira & Rêgo, 2013

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Records. BRAZIL – Rondônia • Porto Velho, Estação Ecológica de Cuniã ; first record on 15.I.2019; photographic record; trail L3; WA3841845 .

Distribution. This species is distributed in the western basin of the Madeira River to south of the Solimões River. It occurs in humid terra firme forests within the várzea and along the sides of roads. It is absent from the high forests on sandy soils and the campina and campinarana vegetation types ( Whitney et al. 2013).

Identification. The mean length of this species is 20 cm. The mantle has blackish feathers without pale terminal fringes, and the belly is pale with dark vertical streaks. The bill is yellow, and the crown and back are brown.