Rio Branco Antbird

Rio Branco Antbird
Rio Branco Antbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Cercomacra
Species: C. carbonaria
Binomial name
Cercomacra carbonaria
Sclater & Salvin, 1873

The Rio Branco Antbird (Cercomacra carbonaria) is a bird species in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil and Guyana.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

It was formerly classified as a Vulnerable species by the IUCN[1]. But new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed. Consequently, it is downlisted to Near Threatened status in 2008[2].

Footnotes

  1. ^ BLI (2004)
  2. ^ BLI (2008)

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