Salvadori's Antwren

Myrmotherula minor

Rare short-tailed antwren found in the understory of humid forests where it is very active and is normally associated with mixed-species flocks. Males are gray with a black throat and dark wing coverts with white spots. Resembles White-flanked Antwren, but without the white on the flanks. Females have a grayish head, a buffy body, and lack the male’s wing spots. The song is a high-pitched “veet…veet.”

识别特征

Salvadori's antwren is about 9 cm (3.5 in) long. It is a smallish bird with a short tail. Adult males are mostly gray that is lighter on the underparts. Their tail is gray with a black band near the end and white tips on the feathers. Their wings are gray with white-tipped blackish coverts. Their throat and the center of the upper breast are black; their crissum has blackish bars. Adult females have a gray head and olive-brown upperparts. Their tail and wings are dull rufous-brown; the tail feathers have russet edges and the wing coverts thin buff edges. Their throat is dingy white and the rest of their underparts deep buff that is deepest on the flanks and crissum. Subadult males lack the adult's black band on the tail.

分类信息

Salvadori's antwren is monotypic. It, the Rio Suno antwren (M. sunensis), and the slaty antwren (M. schisticolor) have similar morphology, behavior, and voices and may form a monophyletic group.<p>The species' English name honors Italian zoologist and ornithologist Tommaso Salvadori, who first described it.

学名
Myrmotherula minor
命名信息
Salvadori, 1864
Passeriformes
Thamnophilidae
Myrmotherula

分布与栖息地

Salvadori's antwren is a bird of the Atlantic Forest. It found very spottily and locally in coastal eastern Brazil between Bahia and extreme northeastern Santa Catarina. It inhabits the understorey to mid-storey of evergreen forest and adjacent mature secondary forest in the lowlands and foothills. It favors the forest interior and usually occurs near running water. In elevation it mostly occurs below 500 m (1,600 ft) but is found as high as 900 m (3,000 ft).

迁徙
Resident species

行为

Salvadori's antwren is believed to be a year-round resident throughout its range.<p>The diet of Salvadori's antwren's diet is not known in detail but is probably mostly mostly insects and spiders. It forages singly, in pairs, or in family groups, and usually as part of a mixed-species feeding flock. It typically forages around the crown and perimeter of trees with medium-size to large leaves. It feeds mostly between about 4 and 8 m (10 and 30 ft) above the ground but will go as low as 1 m (3 ft) and as high as 12 m (40 ft). It seeks prey mostly by gleaning live leaves, and also takes prey from clusters of dead leaves, moss, and hanging Usnea lichen.<p>The breeding season of Salvadori's antwren includes October but is otherwise undefined. Nothing else is known about its breeding biology.<p>The song of Salvadori's antwren is "short twittering, starting extr. high, completed by liquid 'tyweet-tweet-tueet' ". Its calls include "variable...short whistles, given singly", "sharp chips, often in short series", and the same chips in a longer, more widely spaced, series.

保护状况

种群趋势
declining

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