Pale-billed Antpitta - BirdForum Opus

Grallaria carrikeri

Photo by guiacalles
Rio Chido, Amazonas, Peru, December 2012

Identification

19cm.

• Black forecrown, lores, auriculars and malar region
• Blackish-brown crown and side of head, merging into olivaceous brown nape and back
• Dark chestnut wings and tail
• Black upper throat, shadng to blackish-grey on lower throat
• Slate grey breast and belly, feathers narrowly tipped with black
• Almost white central belly
• Buff-olive flanks and crissum
• Ivory-coloured bill

Sexes similar. Juveniles with blackish-gred head, upper mantle and upper breast, rest of plumage dark grey and barred cinnamon.

Distribution

Found on the eastern slopes of the Andes of northern Peru (Amazonas and La Libertad).
An uncommon to locally fairly common restricted-range species.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
It's sometimes considered a sister-specie of Chestnut-naped Antpitta. Probably more closely related to Jocotoco Antpitta.

Habitat

Moist montanes with dense stands of bamboo.
Occurs at 2350 to 2900m.

Behaviour

Diet

Feeds on caterpillars, beetles and other arthropods. Foraging not well documented, probably like other antpittas.

Breeding

Breeding season probably in drier season, nest found in October, juveniles found in August. One nest documented, a shallow cup made of small sticks and decaying leaves. It was placed on a partly fallen tree 3 m above a slope concealed in mosses and ferns.

Movements

Presumably a sedentary 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) Pale-billed Antpitta. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pale-billed_Antpitta

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