Alternative name: Scrub Antpitta
- Grallaria watkinsi
Identification
18 cm.
- Pale rufous crown an dnape with narrow whitish shaft streaks
- Light buffy to white lores and eyering
- Buff auriculars with olive streaks
- Pale olivaceous upperparts, back narrowly whitish streaked
- White throat
- White rest of underparts with broad olivaceous streaking
Sexes similar. Juveniles undescribed.
Distribution
Lowlands and Andes of southwest Ecuador and northwest Peru (Tumbes).
A local but fairly common restricted-range species.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Has been considered conspecific with Chestnut-crowned Antpitta.
Habitat
Dry forests and second growth.
Occurs at 50-1800 m in Ecuador, at 600-900 m in Peru.
Behaviour
Diet
Details unknown. Forages by hopping on the ground, hidden behind vegetation.
Breeding
Breeding suspected in July and late August. No other information.
Movements
Presumably a sedentary species.
References
- 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/
- 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) Watkins's Antpitta. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 6 October 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Watkins%27s_Antpitta
