Short-billed Antwren - BirdForum Opus

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Myrmotherula obscura

Identification

Similar to Pygmy Antwren but with a much shorter bill.

Taxonomy

This is currently a monotypic species¹.

A proposal to merge this species into Moustached Antwren, which itself has to first be split from Pygmy Antwren, has been accepted by one of the world wide checklists, but not by the other.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. SACC proposal to change the taxonomic alignment of this taxon

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