Alternative name: Colombian Antwren
- Herpsilochmus dugandi
Identification
10.5 - 11.5cm
- Black crown and nape
- Long pale grey to white supercilium
- Black loral stripe and postocular stripe
- Variably black patched dark grey upperparts
- Black wings with two white wingbars and white spots
- Short black tail with white tips
- Pale grey throat and underparts
- White underwing-coverts
Female has a rufous crown and nape and buffy underparts.
Similar species
Very similar to Spot-tailed Antwren (especially male) but differs in larger size and voice.
Distribution
Extreme south and southeast Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northeast Peru.
Formerly considered rare but found to have been overlooked in many areas. Uncommon to fairly common in its range.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
It forms a superspecies with Spot-tailed Antwren and was formerly considered conspecific.
Habitat
Found in the canopy and subcanopy of wet, lowland evergreen forest. Recorded at 100 to 600m but mainly below 450m.
Prefers vine tangles in terra firme forest and floodplain-forest.
Behaviour
Feeds on inscects, probably also on spiders.
Forages in pairs or family groups 20 to 40m above the ground, usually in mixed-species flocks.
Not much known about breeding. One nest found in Peru in July was a small pendent cup or bag made of green moss and stems of lichens. It was placed 35m above the ground in a fork of a thin branch.
Presumably a resident species.
References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to October 2008 (Corrigenda 8). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2003. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334504
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Dugand's Antwren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Dugand%27s_Antwren
