Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird - BirdForum Opus

Male, subspecies subflava
Photo © by Stanley Jones
Chuncho Lodge, Madre de Dios Department, Peru, August,2018

Hypocnemis subflava

Identification

12cm (4¾ in)

• Black iris
• Black and white streaked upperparts
• Yellow underparts
• Short tail
• Species sexually dimorphic

Distribution

South America: found from tropical eastern Peru south of the Amazon to Bolivia and south-western Amazonian Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Hypocnemis subflava has two subspecies:^[1]

• H. s. subflava'

• Andean foothills of eastern Peru (Huánuco to Cusco)

• H. s. collinsi

• Southern Peru (Ucayali to Puno) to west-central Bolivia and south-western Amazonian Brazil

Habitat

Rainforest borders and secondary woodland often near water or marshes.

Behaviour

Diet

It gleans for insects in foliage and often picks its prey from the underside of leaves.

Breeding

They are monogamous. Both adults share the incubation of the 2 eggs and subsequent care of the young.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. SACC proposal (passed) to split Warbling Antbird
3. Mort and Phyllis Isler and Bret Whitney: "Species Limits in Antbirds (Thamnophilidae): The Warbling Antbird (Hypocnemis cantator) complex." The Auk 124(1):11-28, 2007
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2018)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 24 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-breasted_Warbling_Antbird

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