Amazonian Antshrike - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by lior kislev
Chino, Otawaio River, Peru, January 2010

Thamnophilus amazonicus

Identification

14 cm
Male:

Grey head, neck and underparts

Female:

Bright orange-rufous, fading towards the belly
Black wings with white wing-bars

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil

Female
Photo by lior kislev
Chino, Otawaio River, Peru, January 2010

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 5 subspecies^[1]:

T. a. cinereiceps:

East-central Colombia to south-western Venezuela and north-western Brazil

T. a. divaricatus:

Extreme eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and north-eastern Amazonian Brazil

T. a. amazonicus:

South-eastern Colombia to northern Bolivia and western Brazil (south of River Amazon)

T. a. obscurus:

Southern-central Amazonian Brazil (southern Pará between River Tapajós and Tocantins)

T. a. paraensis:

Brazil (east of River Tocantins in eastern Pará, western Maranhão and northern Tocantins)

Habitat

Lowland evergreen rain forests and forest edges.

Behaviour

Deit

Not a lot is known, but they feed on a wide variety of insects, including stick insects.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Arthur Grosset
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved October 2014)

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Amazonian Antshrike. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Amazonian_Antshrike

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