Zimmer's Antbird

Zimmer's Antbird
Zimmer's Antbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Myrmeciza
Species: M. castanea
Binomial name
Myrmeciza castanea
Zimmer, 1932

The Zimmer's Antbird (Myrmeciza castanea), also known as the Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird, is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in northeastern Peru and far eastern Ecuador. In the past it was treated as a subspecies of the Chestnut-tailed Antbird, which it closely resembles in plumage.

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