Bananal antbird
Appearance
Bananal antbird | |
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male at Canguçu Ecological Reserve, Pium, Tocantins state, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Cercomacra |
Species: | C. ferdinandi
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Binomial name | |
Cercomacra ferdinandi Snethlage, 1928
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The bananal antbird (Cercomacra ferdinandi) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae.
It is endemic to the wetlands of the central Araguaia river in Brazil, and has one of the smallest ranges of any Amazon bird.
Habitat
Its natural habitat is the igapó flooded forest, where it hunts for insects and invertebrates in the understory. It is most abundant in the Cantão wetlands, which form the largest flooded forest of the southeastern Amazon.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Cercomacra ferdinandi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
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