Spix's Warbling Antbird - BirdForum Opus

Hypocnemis striata

Identification

12cm

• Black iris
• Short tail

Distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy

Hypocnemis striata has three subspecies:^[1]

• H. s. striata

• Brazil south central Amazonian Brazil, from the Madeira/Aripuanã rivers east to the Tapajós River

• H. s. implicata

• South-central Amazonian Brazil (lower River Madeira to River Tapajós)

• H. s. affinis

• Brazil south of River Amazon (River Xingú to River Tocantins, eastern Mato Grosso)

Habitat

Rainforest borders and secondary woodland often near water or marshes.

Behaviour

Diet

It gleans for insects in foliage and often picks its prey from the underside of leaves.

Breeding

They are monogamous. Both adults share the incubation of the 2 eggs and subsequent care of the young.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. SACC proposal (passed) to split Warbling Antbird
3. Mort and Phyllis Isler and Bret Whitney: "Species Limits in Antbirds (Thamnophilidae): The Warbling Antbird (Hypocnemis cantator) complex." The Auk 124(1):11-28, 2007.

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Spix's Warbling Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Spix%27s_Warbling_Antbird

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