Ochre-striped Antpitta

About the Ochre-striped Antpitta

The ochre-striped antpitta (Grallaria dignissima) is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The ochre-striped antpitta was first described as Grallaria dignissima by Sclater and Salvin and illustrated by John Gerrard Keulemans in 1880. In the first half of the twentieth century several authors moved it to genus Thamnocharis; that genus was later subsumed into Grallaria so the species returned to its original binomial. The ochre-striped antpitta and the elusive antpitta (G. eludens) are sister species.

The ochre-striped antpitta is monotypic. Grallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills [and] very short tails". The ochre-striped antpitta is 15 to 19 cm (5.9 to 7.5 in) long; one male weighed 110 g (3.9 oz). The sexes have almost the same plumage. Adult males have a gray-brown crown and nape. Their back, rump, and tail are olive-brown with black and white streaks on the lower back and rump. They have buff lores and buffy brown ear coverts. Their throat and breast are ochraceous brown that becomes black... Wikipedia →