Paraná ant panties
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Paraná ant panties, males |
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The Paraná ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula unicolor ), syn. Myrmothera unicolor , belong to the genus Myrmotherula within the ant bird family (Thamnophilidae) .
The species is endemic to Brazil in the southeast.
The distribution area includes tropical or subtropical moist lowland forest and dry scrub steppe, including restinga forest on white sand ("White Sand Forest") up to 500 m altitude.
The Latin additional species means "monochrome".
The species was previously regarded as conspecific with the Alagoas ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula snowi ).
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features
The bird is 9 to 10 cm tall and weighs between 6 and 9 g. The male is gray with a paler underside, the base of the throat has black feathers with gray tips. The female is olive-brown on the upper side, slightly grayer on the cap and neck, the upper side of the tail is yellowish-brown, the wings are gray-brown with reddish-yellow-brown edges. The tail is reddish-yellow-brown, the throat whitish. The underside is predominantly olive with grayer flanks.
The species is monotypical .
voice
The singing is described as a sequence of simple, roughly equally high notes, each only interrupted by short pauses.
Way of life
The diet consists of insects , including spiders , that are hunted individually, in pairs or in family groups alone or in mixed hunting groups.
The breeding season is not exactly known.
The nest consists of an 8 × 6 cm wide and up to 6 cm deep shell made of roots, discarded leaves and fibers from vertigo just 1 to 2 m above the ground in a horizontal fork.
Hazardous situation
The stock is considered to be near threatened by habitat loss .
literature
- E. Ménétriés: Myrmothera unicolor. In: Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. 6e série, Sciences mathématiques, physiques et naturelles , p. 480, 1835
Web links
- Xeno-canto
- Oiseaux.net
- Birds of the World (videos, photos and sound recordings)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paranáameisenschlüpfer in Avibase - The World Bird Database. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d K. Zimmer and ML Isler: Unicolored Antwren (Myrmotherula unicolor) , 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. Unicolored responses
- ↑ Redlist. Accessed August 11, 2020.