Blackish Antbird - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Thibaud
Pasco, Peru, 1 February 2020

Cercomacroides nigrescens

Identification

14–15 cm (5½-6 in)
Male

Slate-grey
White at the bend of the wing
Small white wing-bar

Female

Olive-brown back
White dorsal patch (concealed)
Bright rufous-orange underparts extending to sides of head and forecrown.

Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Panama
South America: Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil

Taxonomy

Riparian Antbird was formerly included in this species.
Formerly placed in genus Cercomacra.

Subspecies

There are 5 subspecies^[1]:

C. n. nigrescens:

Coastal Suriname, French Guiana, adjacent Brazil (Amazonas, Pará)

C. n. aequatorialis:

East Andean slopes southern Colombia to north-eastern Peru (Amazonas, San Martín)

C. n. notata:

East Andean slope of central Peru (western Ucayali to Junín)

C. n. approximans:

South-central Amazonian Brazil and eastern Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz)

C. n. ochrogyna:

East-central Amazonian Brazil

The subspecies C. n. fuscicauda, formerly included with this species, has now been split into a separate species of Riparian Antbird (C. fuscicauda).

Habitat

Dense undergrowth in varzea forest.

Behaviour

Diet

There is not a lot of information available. Their main diet consists of insects and probably spiders.

Breeding

No information available.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.4). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/580A07F8]. Retrieved 28 February 2021
Arthur Grosset
Zimmer, K., M.L. Isler, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Blackish Antbird (Cercomacroides nigrescens), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.blaant4.01

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Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Blackish Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 24 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blackish_Antbird

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