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Family: Thamnophilidae
Immaculate Antbird, more... (es: Hormiguero Inmaculado)
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Bocas Species Database Habitat: This Antbird species will favor undergrowth of humid forest, second-growth woodland and forest border habitats in foothills and lower highlands. Distribution: This species has been reported from Costa Rica to northwestern Venezuela and western Ecuador. Natural History Notes: The Immaculate Antbird is usually found in pairs and will like to follow army ants. However, they are fairly hard to observe. Its tail is rarely motionless and usually undergoes slight upward movements and then rapidly goes down. It call consists of a rapid series of whistled notes such as "peer-peer-peer-peer-peer-peer". Conservation status according to IUCN 2008 Red list: Least Concern (LC). Characteristics: This species has a total length of 7 inches (measured from tip of bill to end of tail). This bird has a large and fairly long tail and a brown iris. We can easily distinguish the pale blue bare skin area in front of the eye, and whitish behind the eye. The male has a uniform black plumage, which contrasts with the white bend on the wings. The female has a uniform brown plumage with some black coloration on the sides of the head and on the throat. The tail is black-gray and the female also has the white bend on the wing. |