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Subspecies Grallaria guatimalensis princeps
Photo by Glen Tepke
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica, August 2015

Identification

18cm

There are 9 subspecies^[1]:

G. g. ochraceiventris: Mountains of south-western Mexico (Jalisco to Hidalgo, Guerrero and Morelos)
G. g. guatimalensis: Southern Mexico (north-western Veracruz and Oaxaca) to northern Nicaragua
G. g. princeps: Subtropical Costa Rica to western Panama (Veraguas)
G. g. chocoensis: Mountains of eastern Panama (Darién) and north-western Colombia (Chocó)
G. g. carmelitae: Santa Marta Mountains (north-eastern Colombia) and Sierra de Perijá
G. g. aripoensis: Trinidad
G. g. regulus: Andes of Colombia, eastern Ecuador and Peru (south to Cusco)
G. g. sororia: Southern Peru (Cusco) to central Bolivia (Santa Cruz)
G. g. roraimae: Tepuis of southern Venezuela, adjacent northern Brazil and western Guyana

An additional subspecies binfordi is not recognised by most authorities^[2].

Moist lowland forests and montanes.

Terrestrial.

It builds a cup nest of sticks and leaves low in a shrub, into which 2 eggs are laid.

Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
Avibase

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