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Female
Photo by Marcelo Padua
Rio Roosevelt Lodge, Brazil

Thamnophilus amazonicus

[edit] Identification

Male:

• Grey head, neck and underparts
  

Female:

• Bright orange-rufous, fading towards the belly
• Black wings with white wing-bars

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• T. a. cinereiceps:

• East-central Colombia to south-western Venezuela and north-western Brazil

• T. a. divaricatus:

• Extreme eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and north-eastern Amazonian Brazil

• T. a. amazonicus:

• South-eastern Colombia to northern Bolivia and western Brazil (south of River Amazon)

• T. a. obscurus:

• Southern-central Amazonian Brazil (southern Pará between River Tapajós and Tocantins)

• T. a. paraensis:

• Brazil (east of River Tocantins in eastern Pará, western Maranhão and northern Tocantins)

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forests and swamps.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

[edit] External Links