Northern chestnut-tailed antbird
Appearance
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Species: | M. castanea
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Myrmeciza castanea Zimmer, 1932
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Myrmeciza hemimelaena castanea |
The northern chestnut-tailed antbird (Myrmeciza castanea), also known as Zimmer's antbird, is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in northeastern Peru and far eastern Ecuador.
Its name commemorates American ornithologist John Todd Zimmer.[2]
References
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- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 378.