Published: April 02, 2012
Text by Andrew Whittaker and Jaqueline Fortuna
Besides recorded over one year before during our private tour to São Gabriel da Cachoeira, this is the first documented photograph of the Gray-bellied Antbird (
Myrmeciza pelzelni) for Brazil, made by Andrew Whittaker. This poorly-known range restricted Antbird inhabits the upper Rio Negro region of Brazil where is found in the understory of sandy belt forests locally known as Amazonian caatinga. It's a mostly terestrial species that requires an open understory where it forages in the leaf litter, within the bases of trunks of moss covered trees and terrestrial bromeliads.
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