Ant pittas

Ant pittas
Grallaria ruficapilla
Systematics
Subclass : New-jawed birds (Neognathae) Order : Passerines (Passeriformes) Subordination : Screeching Birds (Tyranni) Partial order : Screaming birds of the New World (Tyrannides) without rank: Tracheophonic shrieking birds (Furnariida) Family : Ant pittas
Scientific name
Grallariidae
PL Sclater & Salvin , 1873

The ant pittas (Grallariidae) are a family of the screeching birds in the order of the passerine birds (Passeriformes). The 53 species are all found in South America.

features

Ant pittas are birds with rounded bodies, erect posture, short tails and wings, and very long legs.

Habitat and way of life

Ant pittas are neotropical , ground-dwelling passerine birds. They live in the dense undergrowth of the rainforests , in bushland and in alpine habitats with isolated bushes in the higher Andes . Because of their remote habitats, ant pittas are difficult to observe, so little is known about their biology. Their diet consists of small amphibians and perhaps fruits. The nests made of plant material are flat, the clutch consists of two eggs.

Genera and species (selection)

• Grallaria
  • Pale-bellied ant pitta ( Grallaria hypoleuca )
  • Chest band ant pitta ( Grallaria milleri )
  • Cundinamarca ant pitta ( Grallaria kaestneri )
  • Monochrome ant pitta ( Grallaria rufula )
  • Fenwick's ant pitta ( Grallaria fenwickorum )
  • Yellow-breasted ant pitta ( Grallaria flavotincta )
  • Gray-flanked ant pitta ( Grallaria albigula )
  • Gray-headed ant pitta ( Grallaria alleni )
  • Ocher-whiskered ant pitta ( Grallaria haplonota )
  • Ocher-bellied ant pitta ( Grallaria squamigera )
  • Ocher-cheeked ant pitta ( Grallaria quitensis )
  • Olive-backed ant pitta ( Grallaria bangsi )
  • Giant ant pitta ( Grallaria gigantea )
  • Rust-throated ant pitta ( Grallaria dignissima )
  • Rust cap pitta ( Grallaria ruficapilla )
  • Rust-naped ant pitta ( Grallaria nuchalis )
  • Throat band ant pitta ( Grallaria guatimalensis )
  • Stroke-headed ant pitta ( Grallaria andicola )
  • Táchira ant pitta ( Grallaria chthonia )
  • Two-colored ant pitta ( Grallaria rufocinerea )

• Grail aricula
  • Gray-headed ant pitta ( Grallaricula nana )
  • Crescent ant pitta ( Grallaricula lineifrons )
  • Ocher breast ant pitta ( Grallaricula flavirostris )
  • Red breast ant pitta ( Grallaricula ferrugineipectus )
  • Red-headed ant pitta ( Grallaricula cucullata )

• Hylopezus
  • Orange flank ant pitta ( Hylopezus dives )
  • Rust-flanked ant pitta ( Hylopezus macularius )
  • White-cheeked ant pitta ( Hylopezus fulviventris )

• Myrmothera
  • Strichelbrust-ant pitta ( Myrmothera campanisona )

• Pittasoma
  • Rust-parted ant pitta ( Pittasoma rufopileatum )
  • Black-headed ant pitta ( Pittasoma michleri )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Ber van Perlo: Birds of South America: Passerines. Princeton University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0691167961 , p. 15.
2. ↑ Jesse Fagan, Oliver Komar: Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-544-86710-9 , pp. 234 .
3. ↑ Diego Carantón-Ayala, Katherine Certuche-Cubillos: A new species of antpitta (Grallariidae: Grallaria) from the northern sector of the western Andes of Colombia. In: Ornitología Colombiana No. 9, 2010, pp. 56-70. ( Online )

literature

• Harold F. Greeney : Antpittas & Gnateaters , Helm Identification Guides, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018

Web links

Commons : Grallariidae  - album with pictures, videos and audio files