Silvered Antbird

Silvered Antbird

Taxobox
name = Silvered Antbird
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Thamnophilidae
genus = "Sclateria"
genus_authority = Oberholser 1899
species = "S. naevia"
binomial = "Sclateria naevia"
binomial_authority = (Gmelin, 1788)

The Silvered Antbird, "Sclateria naevia", is a passerine bird in the antbird family, the only member of the genus "Sclateria". It is a resident breeder in tropical South America from Colombia and Trinidad south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil.

This is a skulking terrestrial bird of wet shaded areas, such as in undergrowth or under overhanging vegetation near streams, lagoons or swamps. It is usually found in pairs, foraging on the ground for small insects and other arthropods taken from leaf litter or the water’s surface.

The Silvered Antbird is typically 15 cm long, and weighs 20 g. The adult male of the nominate northern form "S. n. naevia" has dark grey upperparts and dusky wings with two rows of white spots. The underparts are white, extensively and broadly streaked with grey. The female has dark brown upperparts, with buff wing spots and extensively grey-streaked underparts.

Males of the distinctive Amazonian subspecies "S. n. argentata" have the flanks and upper chest grey-white with grey mottling, and the females have white central underparts with rufous sides to the head, neck and body.

The Silvered Antbird has a loud "pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi" call, often the first indication of its presence in its difficult habitat.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
*cite book
last = ffrench
first = Richard
title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
edition = 2nd edition
year = 1991
publisher = Comstock Publishing
isbn = 0-8014-9792-2
*cite book
last = Hilty
first = Steven L
title = Birds of Venezuela
publisher = Christopher Helm
date = 2003
location = London
isbn = 0-7136-6418-5


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