Immaculate Antbird

Immaculate Antbird
female
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Myrmeciza
Species:	M. immaculata
Binomial name
Myrmeciza immaculata (Lafresnaye, 1845)

The Immaculate Antbird (Myrmeciza immaculata) is a species of antbird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found at low levels in humid forests in Costa Rica, Panama, western and northern Colombia, western Venezuela, and western Ecuador. The species feeds on insects, and regularly regularly follows swarms of army ants in order to catch prey flushed by the swarms, but it is not an obligate ant-follower like some species of antbirds. The Immaculate Antbird is strongly sexually dichromatic: The male has an entirely black plumage, while the female has a rufous-brown plumage and a black mask. Both sexes have a blue patch of skin around the eyes.

References

• BirdLife International 2004. Myrmeciza immaculata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.

External links

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