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[[Image:Immaculate_Antbird_Marian_Alvarez.jpg|thumb|450px|right|'''Male'''. Photo by: {{user|Marian+Alvarez|Marian Alvarez}} <br/>Location: Monteverde, [[Costa Rica]].]]
 
[[Image:Immaculate_Antbird_Marian_Alvarez.jpg|thumb|450px|right|'''Male'''. Photo by: {{user|Marian+Alvarez|Marian Alvarez}} <br/>Location: Monteverde, [[Costa Rica]].]]
 
;[[:Category:Myrmeciza|Myrmeciza]] immaculata
 
;[[:Category:Myrmeciza|Myrmeciza]] immaculata
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'''Includes: Zeledon's Antbird'''
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
 
Length 18.5cm (7.25in.)  <!--- Comment: the following is only true in a small portion of its range. "Rather unmistakable as the only [[:Category:Myrmeciza|''Myrmeciza'']] in its range." ---> <br/>
 
Length 18.5cm (7.25in.)  <!--- Comment: the following is only true in a small portion of its range. "Rather unmistakable as the only [[:Category:Myrmeciza|''Myrmeciza'']] in its range." ---> <br/>

Revision as of 07:22, 30 January 2013

Male. Photo by: Marian Alvarez
Location: Monteverde, Costa Rica.
Myrmeciza immaculata

Includes: Zeledon's Antbird

Identification

Length 18.5cm (7.25in.)
Male: Black with bare, pale blue skin around eye (which often looks white behind the eye). Has small white mark on shoulders, but this is often hidden.
Female: Similar, but black overall replaced with brown with darker tail.

Distribution

Central America: southern Nicaragua through Costa Rica and Panama; possibly Honduras? South America: Colombia, Ecuador, and western Venezuela.

Taxonomy

Female. Photo by: megan perkins
Location: Rancho Naturalista, Costa Rica.

Four subspecies are recognized:[1]

  • M. i. zeledoni
  • M. i. macrorhyncha
  • M. i. brunnea
  • M. i. immaculata

This species has been split in two by the SACC; the Opus awaits the position of the world wide checklists before following.

Habitat

Undergrowth of humid forest and woodland on western slope of Andes, mostly below 1400m.

Behaviour

Shy and seldom seen on dark forest floors, where it forages for insects. Will follow ant swarms.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019
  2. Birdforum thread discussing taxonomy of this species

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