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Latest revision as of 21:28, 29 January 2023
- Megastictus margaritatus
Identification
12-13 cm (4¾-5 in)
Male
- Grey crown and upperparts
- Black wings and tail
- Large, rounded, white spots at tips of wing-coverts and tertials
- White tips to uppertail-coverts and tail
- Pale grey underparts, palest on chin, throat and centre of belly
Female
- Yellowish-brown crown and upperparts, crown tinged blackish
- Spots on wing-coverts, tertials, tail-coverts and tail like male but spots pale buffish
- Ochraceous edges on flight-feathers
- Ochraceous underparts with cinnamon tinge, palest on throat and centre of belly
Distribution
Southeast Colombia, southern Venezuela, Ecuador, eastern Peru, and west-central Amazonian Brazil.
Rare to uncommon and patchily distributed.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Habitat
Found in understorey of lowland evergreen forest. Also in adjacent mature second-growth. Occurs mostly below 500 m but up to 1250 m in tepui region of southern Venezuela. Probably more common in areas with sandy soil.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on insects.
Forages singly, in pairs or in family groups, sometimes loosely associated with mixed-species flocks.
Breeding
Not well known. One nest recorded in Brazil in August. The nest was an open cup made of plant fibres, rootlets, some twigs and dead leaves. It was suspended by a rim of plant fibres and spider webs from a diagonal fork in an understorey sapling. It contained two eggs.
Movements
Presumably a resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2016)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Pearly Antshrike. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pearly_Antshrike
External Links
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