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- Myrmotherula schisticolor
Identification
10 cm. Dark slate, black throat and breast, black wings with white spots, and a concealed white shoulder patch. The adult female is olive-brown above and buff-brown below, paler on the throat. Young males are darker, duller and greyer than the adult female.
Distribution
Southern Mexico to western Ecuador and eastern Peru.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 3 subspecies:
- M. s. schisticolor:
- M. s. sanctaemartae:
- M. s. interior:
- Andean slopes from eastern Colombia to southern Peru (Puno)
Habitat
Wet forest.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects and spiders, taken from foliage.
It builds a deep pouch nest from plant fibres which is suspended from the fork of a thin twig less than 2 m up. 2 red-brown spotted white eggs are laid and incubated by both sexes The male and female parents both feed the chicks.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Slaty Antwren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Slaty_Antwren