- Gymnopithys lunulata
Identification
13-13.5 cm.
Male
- Mostly grey plumage
- White supercilium, anterior ear-coverts, chin and throat
- Blackish-grey tail
Female
- White supercilium
- Dark olive-brown lores and postocular patch
- White subocular area and throat
- Yellowish olive-brown crown and upperparts
- Blackish edges and light buff tipps on back feathers, tertials and wing-coverts
- Dark greyish-brown tail, whitish barred on inner webs
- Olive-brown underparts
Juveniles similar to females but without supercilium and with patchily white throat.
Similar species
Male is darker than White-throated Antbird and has an unbarred tail.
Distribution
Locally in eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru.
Rare to uncommon in its small range.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Placed in the genus Oneillornis by Gill and Donsker.
Habitat
Understorey of moist lowland forest, primarily in seasonally flooded varzea and adjacent forest.
Occurs mostly below 400 m, locally higher up.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on different arthropods, including crickets, cockroaches, ant larvae and spiders. An army-ant follower with up to 10 birds reported at a swarm but usually just a single pair or a family. Often displaced to heights of 3 m by dominant ant-following-species.
Breeding
Not well known. Breeding season in Peru probably October to April.
Movements
Presumably a resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2016)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Lunulated Antbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 31 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Lunulated_Antbird
