Red-fronted Antpecker

Red-fronted Antpecker

Taxobox
name = Red-fronted Antpecker
image_width = 240px
image_caption = Adult male near Bwindi (Uganda)
status = NT
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Estrildidae
genus = "Parmoptila"
species = "P. rubrifrons "
binomial = "Parmoptila rubrifrons"
binomial_authority = (Sharpe & Ussher, 1872)
range_

range_map_width = 200px
range_map_caption = Global range

The Red-fronted Antpecker ("Parmoptila rubrifrons") is a songbird species found in western Africa. Like all antpeckers, it is tentatively placed in the of estrildid finch family (Estrildidae). It used to contain its eastern relative Jameson's Antpecker as a subspecies, but these birds are now usually considered a distinct species "P. jamesoni".

This bird inhabits subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. When Jameson's and the Red-fronted antpeckers were still evaluated as one species, they were classified as a Species of Least Concern by the IUCN [BLI (2004)] . However, the Red-fronted Antpecker is declining noticeably due to habitat destruction and has entirely disappeared from Mali for example. Therefore its status has been changed to Near Threatened after the taxonomic split [BLI (2008a,b)] .

Footnotes

References

*|year=2004|id=53258|title=Parmoptila rubrifrons|downloaded=26 May 2008
* (2008a) [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=32473&m=0 Red-fronted Antpecker Species Factsheet] . Retrieved 2008-MAY-26.
* (2008b): [http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/global_species_programme/whats_new.html [2008 IUCN Redlist status changes] . Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.


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