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- Myrmotherula longipennis
Identification
9-10.5 cm, 8-10 g. Male gray with black bib (extending farther down than in the similar and often sympatric Gray Antwren), black wing coverts tipped white forming three wing bars. Female variable depending on subspecies, back and wings ranging from ochraceous brown to gray, most with buff wing bars, underparts pale brown with white belly in ssp. longipennis, more uniformly ochraceous in other subspecies.
Distribution
South America Amazon Basin
Taxonomy
6 subspecies.
Habitat
Moist lowland forest, particularly terra firme with open understory
Behaviour
Usually found with mixed-species understory flocks, taking insect prey from stems and live leaves, mostly 2-8m from the ground.
References
Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 8
