- Myrmotherula ignota
Includes Colombian Antwren
Identification
Male: Upperparts and crown mostly black-and-white striped, throat white separated from the white sides of head by black malar stripe; underparts off-white to yellowish. Wings have white wing bars and narrow white edges to flight feathers; tail is short and black.
Female similar but with white replaced by buff to yellowish on crown and sides of head.
Similar species
Moustached Antwren has a broader, more prominent malar stripe than Pygmy Antwren.
See also Yellow-throated Antwren
Distribution
South America: Eastern Panama to Colombia, north-western Ecuador north-eastern Peru and western Amazonian Brazil
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Myrmotherula ignota has two subspecies:
- M. i. ignota
- Eastern Panama to western Colombia and north-western Ecuador
- Split from Pygmy Antwren.[1][2]
- M. i. obscura
- South-central and eastern Colombia to north-eastern Peru and western Amazonian Brazil
- Regarded as a separate species, the Short-billed Antwren Myrmotherula obscura, by some authorities.
Habitat
Subtropical or tropical moist lowland rainforests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
Behaviour
This species tends to fourage high towards the canopy while the Plain-throated Antwren fourages at lower levels, at least if both species are present.
References
- 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
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- SACC proposal to change the taxonomic alignment of this taxon
- Morton & Stutchbury (2001): Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-675556-6
- Ridgely and Tudor 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America - The Passerines. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71979-8
- Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Moustached Antwren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Moustached_Antwren
