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Photo by PanamaHarpy
La Mesa-El Valle, Panama, June 2011

Myrmeciza laemosticta

Includes Magdalena Antbird

Identification

Magdalena Antbird
Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Magdalena Valley, Colombia, March 2012

13-14cm
Male

• Black grey head, neck, upper mantle
• Black grey to upper belly
• Refous brown on rest of upperparts and underparts
• Black throat
• Irregular black spots on breast
• Cinnamon tipped primary coverts
• Grey underwing coverts
• White patch between shoulders
• Red iris
• Black bill
• Grey feet

Female

• Similar but lighter
• Black throat with white spots

Distribution

Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• M. l. laemosticta
  • Costa Rica and Panama including Darien
• M. l. palliata (formerly recognized subspecies bolivari, venezuelae included here; however Restall states that these two may be identical but different from palliata)
  • Colombia and Venezuela

A proposal has been made to split these into two species with the second part becoming Magdalena Antbird (Myrmeciza palliata). Gill and Donsker accept this split.

Habitat

Lowland moist forest, deep ravines and near streams.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes spiders, cockroaches, beetles, crickets, woodlice and larvae.

Breeding

It builds a cup shaped nest. The clutch consists of 2 cinnamon spotted white eggs.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2011. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.10). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
3. Birdforum thread discussing the possible split of this species.
4. Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
5. Wikipedia

• List of references

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