Bananal antbird

Bananal antbird
	male at Canguçu Ecological Reserve, Pium, Tocantins state, Brazil
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Cercomacra
Species:	C. ferdinandi
Binomial name
	Cercomacra ferdinandi; Snethlage, 1928

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. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

External links

BirdLife Species Factsheet.

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[1] BirdLife International (2020). "Cercomacra ferdinandi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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