Order: Passeriformes | Family: Grallariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. El Angolo, Piura
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. El Angolo, Piura
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. El Angolo, Piura
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Identification & Behavior: ~18 cm (7 in). The Watkins’s Antpitta has olive upperparts with rufous cap and nape. The underparts are whitish with dusky and brown streaks. It forages on the floor of semi-humid and semi-deciduous forest edges and sparse scrub. It is similar to Chestnut-crowned Antpitta, but their ranges are not known to overlap.
Status: The Watkins’s Antpitta is common in semi-deciduous forests of the Departments of Tumbes and Piura. It also occurs in Ec.
Name in Spanish: Tororoi de Watkins.
Sub-species: Watkins’s Antpitta (Grallaria watkinsi) Chapman, 1919.
Meaning of Name: Grallaria: L. grallarius, grallae= one walking on stilts. watkinsi: After Henry George Watkins, English collector in Peru.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 01/01/2015.