Wing-banded Antbird - BirdForum Opus

Myrmornis torquata

Identification

Upperside brown, underside mostly gray with throat area black in males and orange in females. Wings have two buffy wing-bars on mostly black background. Sides of head somewhat scallopped gray.

Distribution

Nicaragua to Panama, the Guianas, Brazil, and Peru.

There are breaks in the distribution area¹, with the Central American population discontinous from the rest, and there may be no connection between the Ecuador/Peru population and the population in eastern South America.

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[2]

Two subspecies are recognized:

• M. t. stictoptera (Buff-banded):

• Caribbean lowlands of eastern Nicaragua to extreme north-western Colombia

• M. t. torquata:

• Colombia to the Guianas, north-eastern Peru and Amazonian Brazil

Habitat

Moist lowland forests.

Behaviour

Normally seen in pairs.

Diet

The diet includes invertebrates.

References

1. Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
2. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
3. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Wing-banded Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 July 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Wing-banded_Antbird

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