Great Antshrike

Great Antshrike

Taxobox
name = Great Antshrike
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Thamnophilidae
genus = "Taraba"
genus_authority = (Lesson, 1830)
species = "T. major"
binomial = "Taraba major"
binomial_authority = Vieillot, 1816

The Great Antshrike, "Taraba major", is a passerine bird in the antbird family. It is the only member of the genus "Taraba"-(monotypic).

It is a resident breeder in the tropical New World in southern Mexico, Central America, Trinidad and South America down to northern Argentina and southeastern Brazil.

This is a bird of thickets, cocoa and citrus plantations and sometimes gardens, with a preference for dense undergrowth. It is usually found as territorial pairs. The female lays two, sometimes three, grey-marked white eggs in a deep cup nest in a shrub, which are incubated by both sexes for 14 days to hatching. The chicks fledge in another 12 days.

The Great Antshrike is a large and distinctive antbird, typically 20.3 cm long, and weighs 56 g. It has a crest, heavy hooked bill, and brilliant red eyes. The adult male has black upperparts, with two white wingbars and white underparts. There is a white dorsal patch normally concealed except in threat display; young males are similar to the adult, but have rufous wing coverts. The female has rich rufous upperparts and white underparts.

The Great Antshrike feeds on insects and other arthropods gleaned from foliage. It will also take small lizards and mammals. It is a skulking species, which may be located by its song, 30 to 40 musical "pook-pook-pook" notes, or a snarled "churrrr". Interestingly, sleeping birds are readily located at sites such as the Asa Wright Nature Centre on Trinidad.

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

External links

* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=4301 Great Antshrike videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/10900900.htm Stamps] (for Nicaragua) with RangeMap
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=great+antshrike&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Great Antshrike photo gallery] VIREO (photo close-up of Red Eye)
* [http://www.ib.usp.br/ceo/images/tarmaj.jpgPhoto-Medium Res] ; [http://www.ib.usp.br/ceo/imag_sons/fvthamn.htm Article] ib.usp.br—"Thamnophilidae" [http://www.ib.usp.br/ceo/images/tar_maj_f.jpgPhoto-2--High Res]
* [http://www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/photos/tarmaj4964.jpgPhoto-High Res] ; [http://www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/greatantshrike.html Article & synopsis] arthurgrosset [http://www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/photos/tarmaj4824.jpgPhoto no. 2 of no. 3]


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