Jocotoco Antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi)

Identification & Behavior: ~20.5 cm (8.1 in).  The Jocotoco Antpitta has brown upperparts with a black cap and gray sides of the head.  It has a conspicuous broad white mustachial streaks. The underparts are gray and whitish. This range-restricted antpitta has a limited range in extreme northwest Peru where it forages on the forest floor of humid montane forests. Unmistakable in its restricted range, but see Plain-backed Antpitta, and Scaled Antpitta.

Status: The Jocotoco Antpitta is rare at mid-elevations ~ 2500 m in humid montane. It occurs north of the Marañon River. It also occurs in Ec. Specimens collected in the Cordillera del Condor, Región of Cajamarca (J. P. O’Neill to various persons in litt., Schulenberg et al. 2010) are unreported.

Name in Spanish: Tororoi Jocotoco.

Sub-species: Jocotoco Antpitta (Grallaria ridgelyi) Krabbe, Agro, Rice, Jacome, Navarrete, and Sornoza, 1999.

Meaning of Name: Grallaria: L. grallarius, grallae= one walking on stilts. ridgelyi: after American ornithologist and author Robert Ridgely.

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