Alternative name: Checker-throated Antwren
- Epinecrophylla fulviventris
Myrmotherula fulviventris
Identification
10cm
- Olive-brown above
- Buff-brown below
- Black wings
- Buff wingbars
Male
- Black throat with white spots
- Grey breast
- Dusky sides to head
Female: buff throat and central breast
Juveniles: brighter, cinnamon, pale streaked below
Distribution
Central and South America
Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: Colombia (lower Cauca Valley) and western Ecuador
Taxonomy
Placed in genus Epinecrophylla by Clements (2010)[1] and Gill and Donsker (2010)[3], and in genus Myrmotherula by Dickinson (2003)[2].
This is a monotypic species[1] though 3 subspecies have been recognised by some authorities.[4]
Habitat
Foothills up to 700m, wet forest.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects' eggs, larvae, insects and spiders.
Breeding
A pouch shaped nest, made from plants and dead leaves, is suspended from a twig. The 2 white eggs have lilac or red-brown spots. Both parents feed the young.
Vocalisation
Call: a thin cheep.
Song: a loud tseek-tseek-tseek-tseek.
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/
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2021. IOC World Bird List (v11.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.11.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Checker-throated Stipplethroat. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Checker-throated_Stipplethroat
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
