Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thamnophilidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Iranduba, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Manaus, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Iranduba, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Manaus, Brazil
Identification & Behavior: ~10 cm (4 in). The male Leaden Antwren is gray with gray wing coverts and white wing bars. The female is gray above with white wings bars. Box sexes characteristically twitch the wings and tail. It forages in the understory of the forest on river-created islands and to a less extend along margins or rivers and lakes. It is similar to the Gray Antwren (north of the Amazon) but is distinguished by having gray wing coverts and more importantly by using very different habitat types.
Status: The Leaden Antwren is uncommon on islands on large rivers in Loreto. It also occurs in Co, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Hormiguerito Plomizo.
Sub-species: Leaden Antwren (Myrmotherula assimilis assimilis), Pelzeln, 1868.
Meaning of Name: Myrmotherula: Gr. Combination word myrmothera= a genus (Velliot,1916,
antpitta) Myrmotherula= diminutive of Myrmothera. assimilis: L. assimilis= similar, like.
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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 03/01/2017.
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