Spot Backed Antbird

April 17, 2012

Meet the Spot-backed Antbird (Hylophylax neavia). There are some 220 species of antbirds, all of which are found only in the Neotropics. Although they are called antbirds, they eat all kinds of insects.
This is a female of a species that lives in pairs in the understory of Amazonian forest.
 

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(c) The Field Museum, Division of Birds, John Bates