Blue-lored Antbird

About the Blue-lored Antbird

The blue-lored antbird (Hafferia immaculata) is a species of antbird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. The blue-lored antbird was described in 1845 as Turdus immaculatus. It was later included in genera Percnostola and Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic. In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the blue-lored antbird was moved to the newly erected genus Hafferia.

Until about 2012 Myrmeciza immaculata was called the immaculate antbird. It included what is now the blue-lored antbird as its nominate subspecies and what is now Zeledon's antbird (H. zeledoni) as two other subspecies. The current blue-lored antbird has two subspecies, the nominate H. i. immaculata (Lafresnaye, 1845) and H. i. concepcion (Donegan, 2012).

The blue-lored antbird is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs about 39 to 44 g (1.4 to 1.6 oz). Both sexes have pale blue lores, a ring of bare pale blue skin around their eye, and a deep red iris. Adult males of the nominate subspecies... Wikipedia →