Peruvian Warbling Antbird - BirdForum Opus

Hypocnemis peruviana

Peruvian Warbling Antbird (Hypocnemis peruviana)
Photo by lior kislev
Chino, Otawaio River, Peru, February 2010

Identification

12cm

• Black iris
• Short tail

Distribution

South America: east of the Andes from western Amazonian Brazil and northern Bolivia to tropical Peru, and southern Colombia

Taxonomy

Hypocnemis peruviana has two subspecies:^[1]

• H. p. peruviana

• East-central Colombia to southern Venezuela and extreme north-western Amazonian Brazil

• H. p. saturata

• Southern Colombia to north-eastern Peru and west-central Amazonian Brazil

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. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
3. SACC proposal (passed) to split Warbling Antbird
4. 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.

• List of references

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Peruvian Warbling Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Peruvian_Warbling_Antbird

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