Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Sciaphylax hemimelaena)

Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thamnophilidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Madre de Dios, Peru

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Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Madre de Dios, Peru

chestnut-tailed_antbird
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Madre de Dios, Peru

chestnut-tailed_antbird
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Madre de Dios, Peru


Identification & Behavior: ~12 cm (4.7 in). The male Chestnut-tailed Antbird has a gray head, neck, and sides of the breast and belly. It has a black bib. The center of the belly is white (light morph) or gray (dark morph). The wing coverts are black with buffy wing bars. The rump and tail are reddish-brown. The female has a gray crown with rufous-brown rest of the upperparts. The wing coverts are black and brown with white and buffy wing bars. The breast is reddish-brown. It forages in the understory of floodplain forest. It is very similar to the Zimmer’s Antbird but these species replace each other geographically.

Status: The Chestnut-tailed Antbird is uncommon and widespread in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 1500 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Br and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Hormiguero de Cola Castaña.

Sub-species: Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Sciaphylax hemimelaena hemimelaena), P. L. Sclater, 1857.

Meaning of Name: Sciaphylax: Gr. skia, skias= shadow, shade; phulax, phulakos= watcher, sentinel. hemimelaena: Gr. Hemi= half, small and melas, melaina= black.

Formerly known as Myrmeciza hemimelaena (2018).

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