The Pale-legged Hornero is one of the 8 species in the Genus Fernarius which is the Horneros. Hornero comes from the Spanish for oven or Horno. The Hornero nest is a clay structure that resembles a wood-fired oven. These birds collectively are the reason why the family is called Ovenbirds, which is completely unrelated to what we call an Ovenbird in the US. We only saw a handful of the Pale-legged Horneros on our trip to the Pantanal in Brazil. They basically look a lot like the more common Rufous Hornero but with a nice white stripe above the eye and pink or pale colored legs versus the darker legs of the Rufous.
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