© Gustavo Pedersoli; Cachoeira Formação, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Collared Crescentchest is a characteristic bird of the cerrado, especially in relatively open, grassy cerrado with a scattering of bushes or low trees. Crescentchests forage on or near the ground, solitarily or in pairs, where they are difficult to observe; but males often sing from an elevated perch. Large areas of cerrado now are being lost to advancing large-scale agriculture, but Collared Crescentchest has a very wide distribution and is not considered to be threatened.

Recommended Citation

Drucker, Jacob. 2013. Collared Crescentchest (Melanopareia torquata), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=%0A%09%09%09%09419241