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[[Image:Silvery-cheeked_Antshrike.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Male<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|Ciro+Albano|Ciro Albano}}<br />Chapada do Araripe, [[Brazil]], November 2004]]
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[[Image:Silvery-cheeked_Antshrike.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Male<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|Ciro+Albano|Ciro Albano}}<br />Chapada do Araripe, [[Brazil]], 21 November 2004]]
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''Sakesphorus cristatus''
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
[[Image:Silvery-cheekedAntshrikeXP.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|Xyko+Paludo|Francisco Paludo}}<br />Sítio Pau Preto, Potengi, Ceará,  [[Brazil]], July 2017]]
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[[Image:Silvery-cheekedAntshrikeXP.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|Xyko+Paludo|Francisco Paludo}}<br />Sítio Pau Preto, Potengi, Ceará,  [[Brazil]], 29 July 2017]]
 
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14cm (5½ in).  
 
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* Black crest, face and bib
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Probably a resident species.
 
Probably a resident species.
 
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Latest revision as of 23:18, 15 August 2023

Male
Photo © by Ciro Albano
Chapada do Araripe, Brazil, 21 November 2004
Sakesphoroides cristatus

Sakesphorus cristatus

Identification

Female
Photo by Francisco Paludo
Sítio Pau Preto, Potengi, Ceará, Brazil, 29 July 2017

14cm (5½ in).

  • Black crest, face and bib
  • Silvery cheeks and sides of the neck
  • Rufous-brown wings with white wing-bars
  • Black tail with bold white bars

Females are pale rufous above with brighter rufous on the crown and tail and buffy-white on the underparts.

Distribution

Northeast Brazil.
Fairly common in its small range.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
It may form a superspecies with Black-crested Antshrike and Collared Antshrike.

Habitat

Dry forests and shrubland (caatinga). Occurs up to 1100m.

Behaviour

Diet

Feeds on insects and other arthropods.
Forages usually in dense cover, singly, in pairs or in mixed-species flocks.

Breeding

No information about breeding.

Movements

Probably a resident species.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to October 2008 (Corrigenda 8). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
  3. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
  4. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2003. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334504

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