Manu Antbird - BirdForum Opus

Cercomacra manu

Identification

14-15.5 cm.

Male

• Blackish plumage, greyer on flanks
• White edges on black wings form three narrow wingbars
• Graduated tail with black tips

Female

• Olive-brown crown, upperparts and wings
• White inter­scapular patch and concealed patch under scapulars
• Sooty black lesser and median wing-coverts, brown greater coverts, all tipped white
• Dark greyish-brown tail, narrowly tipped white
• Grey head sied, throat and underparts
• Throat faintly streaked white
• Flanks tinged olive

Similar species

Blackish Antbird is very similar but Manu Antbird is slightly less black, especially on flanks and has narrower white tail tips.

Distribution

Locally in southern Amazonian Brazil, northwest Bolivia and southeast Peru.
Patchily distributed but seems to be fairly common in its range.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
Described as recently as 1990. Vocalizations may vary geographically and a taxonomic revision probably required.

Habitat

Found in nearly pure stands of bamboo in moist lowland and foothill forest, locally in riverine forest with thin patches of bamboo.
Occurs up to 1200 m in Peru.

Behaviour

Diet

Feeds on insects, probably also on spiders.
Forages in pairs, small groups or sometimes briefly in mixed-species flocks 4-15 m above the ground in arching crowns of bamboo or in vine tangles and shaded canopies of adjacent overstorey trees.

Breeding

Not much information. One nest was found in September in Peru, another in December in Brazil. One nest was described as a pensile pouch made of dead bamboo leaves laced with long dry fibres, rim woven on to slender branchlets among dense foliage in a thicket.

Movements

Presumably a resident species.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. 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

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Manu Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Manu_Antbird

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