Amazon stick ant panties
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Amazonian stick ant panties, females |
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The Amazon slick ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula multostriata ) belong to the genus Myrmotherula within the ant bird family (Thamnophilidae) .
The species occurs in seasonally flooded lowland forests of the Amazon basin south of the Amazon in eastern Colombia , northern Bolivia and Brazil .
The distribution area includes tropical or subtropical humid lowland forests, tropical quarries along waterways and ponds in Várzea and adjacent bushland up to 300, sometimes up to 500 m.
The Latin additional species comes from the Latin multus 'much' and the Latin striatus 'striped' .
For a long time, the species was regarded as a subspecies (Ssp.) Of the Guayana stick ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula surinamensis ) and as con-specific with the western stick ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula pacifica ).
features
The bird is 9 to 10 cm tall and weighs between 7 and 9 g. The male has a black, strong white striped top and cap, the wing-coverts have white tips, the flight feathers have white edges. The interscapular spot is broad, the body whitish, the tail black with white edges and white pointy spots. The male is almost indistinguishable from the extremely similar Guiana stick ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula surinamensis ).
The female has a cinnamon-colored head with black stripes on the cap, neck and sides of the head. The chest and flanks are rust to clay colored with a white throat. In contrast to the female of the Guayana bar ant hatchers and the white stripe ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula cherriei ), the black chin stripe is very thin and the dotted lines on the underside are extremely thin.
The species is monotypical .
voice
The singing is described as an ascending trill, similar to that of the Guiana barbel ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula surinamensis ), but a little slower.
Way of life
The food consists of small insects and arachnids , which are often hunted close to the ground up to medium tree height in pairs, mostly not in mixed hunting communities, preferably in dense vegetation over water surfaces, usually no further than 50 m from the water.
The breeding season in Brazil is between July and December. The nest is covered with green moss on the outside and hangs 0.4 to 4 m above the water in a small fork of a branch. The clutch consists of two white eggs with purple, brown or black spots and stripes. The breeding business is taken over by both parent birds during the day.
Hazardous situation
The stock is not considered to be at risk ( least concern ).
literature
- P. Sclater: Myrmotherula multostriata. In: Synopsis of the American ant-birds (Formicariidae). Part II containing the Formicivorinae . In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . Volume 26, pp. 234, 1858, Biodiversity Library
Web links
- Xeno-canto
- Oiseaux.net
- Peruaves
- Birds of the World (videos, photos and sound recordings)
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Amazonia stick ant panties , in Avibase - The World Bird Database. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d M. McMullan: Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia Rey Naranjo Editores, 2018, ISBN 978-958-8969-77-0
- ↑ a b c d K. Zimmer and ML Isler: Amazonian Streaked-Antwren (Myrmotherula multostriata) , version 1.0. In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, DA Christie and E. de Juana (editors): Birds of the World . 2020, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. Amazonian streaked responses
- ^ JA Jobling: A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Oxford University Press. 1991, ISBN 0-19-854634-3 .
- ↑ Redlist.Retrieved July 24, 2020.