Amazonian Antpitta

About the Amazonian Antpitta

The Amazonian antpitta (Myrmothera berlepschi) is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. The Amazonian antpitta was originally described in 1903 as Grallaria berlepschi. It was later transferred to genus Hylopezus and still later to Myrmothera.

The Amazonian antpitta has two subspecies, the nominate M. b. berlepschi (Hellmayr, 1903), and M. b. yessupi (Carriker, 1930). The Amazonian antpitta is 14.5 to 15 cm (5.7 to 5.9 in) long; males weigh 46 to 54 g (1.6 to 1.9 oz) and females 36 to 49 g (1.3 to 1.7 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a buffy loral spot and pinkish red bare skin around their eye. Their crown, nape, ear coverts, upperparts, and tail are olive-brown. Their wings are mostly olive-brown with olive-buff outer webs on the primaries. Their throat is white. Their breast and sides are buffy ochraceous with coarse dusky streaks, their belly white, and their flanks and crissum orange-rufous. Subspecies M. b. yessupi has slightly browner and darker upperparts and slightly deeper buff underparts than the nominate. Both subspecies have a brown... Wikipedia →