Chestnut-winged Hookbill - BirdForum Opus

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Photo © by Stanley Jones
Río Tambopata, Peru August 2018

Ancistrops strigilatus

Identification

Similar species

Shorter tail, larger bill, and heavier neck separates this from a variety of Foliage-Gleaners

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• A. s. strigilatus:

• Western Amazonia from south-eastern Colombia to north-western Bolivia and western Brazil

• A. s. cognitus:

• Central Brazil (lower Rio Tapajós)

Habitat

Lowland moist forest.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Remsen, Jr., J. V. (2020). Chestnut-winged Hookbill (Ancistrops strigilatus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.chwhoo1.01

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Chestnut-winged Hookbill. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chestnut-winged_Hookbill

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