Chestnut-tailed Antbird

Chestnut-tailed Antbird
Chestnut-tailed Antbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Myrmeciza
Species: M. hemimelaena
Binomial name
Myrmeciza hemimelaena
Sclater, 1857

The Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Myrmeciza hemimelaena), also known as the Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird, is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in far southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western and central Brazil. In the past it sometimes included the Zimmer's Antbird as a subspecies.

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