Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird - BirdForum Opus

Hypocnemis subflava

Identification

12cm

• Black iris
• Short tail

Distribution

Tropical eastern Peru south of the Amazon to Bolivia and south-western Amazonian Brazil.

Taxonomy

Hypocnemis subflava has two subspecies:^[1]

• H. s. subflava'

• Andean foothills of eastern Peru (Huánuco to Cusco)

• H. s. collinsi

• Southern Peru (Ucayali to Puno) to west-central Bolivia and south-western 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. 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) Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-breasted_Warbling_Antbird

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