- Grallaricula ochraceifrons
Identification
10.5cm
- Ochraceous-buff face and broad eyering
- Olive-brown hindcrown
- Olive-brown upperparts
- White throat
- Black malar stripe
- Buffy flanks, white underparts heavily streaked with black
- Dark brown eye
- Black upper mandible, black lower mandible with pink base
Females are similar to males but they have a brown crown and generally darker brown upperparts.
Juveniles undescribed.
Distribution
Endemic to a small area in the central Andes of Peru (Cordillera de Colan and Abra Patricia).
A poorly known, rare restricted-range species.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
May form a superspecies with Peruvian Antpitta.
Habitat
Dense undergrowth of humid cloud-forest. Occurs at 1890 - 1980m.
Behaviour
No published information about diet.
Also nothing known about breeding.
Presumably a sedentary species.
References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- 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) Ochre-fronted Antpitta. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Ochre-fronted_Antpitta
