Photo © by Stanley Jones
Podocarpus National Park, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Peru, 13 November 2014
- Willisornis poecilinotus
Hylophylax poecilinotus
Identification
12–13 cm
Male
- Grey overal plumage
- Black patches, edged white on lower back
- Black wings and tail
Distribution
South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil
Taxonomy
Was formerly included in Scale-backed Antbird together with Xingu Scale-backed Antbird.
Formerly placed in genus Hylophylax.
Subspecies
Five subspecies recognized[1]:
- W. p. poecilinotus in southern Venezuela, the Guianas and northeast Brazil
- W. p. duidae in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and northwest Brazil
- W. p. lepidonota in southeast Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northeast Peru
- W. p. griseiventris in southeast Peru, northern Bolivia and southwest Amazonian Brazil
- W. p. gutturalis in northeast Peru and western Amazonian Brazil
Habitat
Mostly found in terra firma forests in the understorey.
Behaviour
Diet
They eat a variety of insects, larva, arthropods and occasionally small lizards They are sometimes seen with other species near army ant swarms.
Breeding
They construct cup shaped nests from fibres, dry grass, and palm leaves, sometimes using natural cavities. The clutch normally consists of two pinkish eggs with reddish spots and streaks. Both adults incubate the eggs. After fledging the adults care for one chick each.
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/
- Zimmer, K., M.L. Isler, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Common Scale-backed Antbird (Willisornis poecilinotus), 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.scbant3.01
- SACC proposal no 286 and proposal no 340 to change genus of this species
- Birdforum thread discussing splitting Scale-backed Antbird
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Common Scale-backed Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Common_Scale-backed_Antbird
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.1
