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Hypocnemoides maculicauda

Photo by Lior Kislev
Amazon River, Loreto, Peru, March 2010

[edit] Identification

Male:

• Grey
• Black bib
• 2 or 3 fringed white wing-bars
• Broad white tip to the tail
  

Female:

• Similar but underparts are white with greyish spots

[edit] Similar Species

Very similar to Black-chinned Antbird but this is found south of the Amazon and has a broad white tip to the tail.

Female
Photo by Lior Kislev
Amazon River, Loreto, Peru, March 2010

[edit] Distribution

South America: found from eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and southern Amazonian Brazil

[edit] Taxonomy

Clements¹ lists this species as monotypicc, other authors² recognize subspecies maculicauda and orientalis.

[edit] Habitat

Varzea, gallery forest, lake margins, swamps. It is always found close to water.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Reference

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.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia
4. Arthur Grosset
5. BF Member Observations

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds