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  2. Antbird - Wikipedia

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    The ant-following antbirds are themselves followed by three species of butterfly in the family Ithomiinae which feed on their droppings. [34] Bird droppings are usually an unpredictable resource in a rainforest, but the regular behaviour of ant followers makes the exploitation of this resource possible.

  3. Common scale-backed antbird - Wikipedia

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    Common scale-backed antbird Male, Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador Female, Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Willisornis Species: W. poecilinotus Binomial name Willisornis poecilinotus (Cabanis, 1847) Synonyms ...

  4. Anting (behavior) - Wikipedia

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    A black drongo in a typical anting posture. Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin.The bird may pick up the insects in its bill and rub them on the body (active anting), or the bird may lie in an area of high density of the insects and perform dust bathing-like movements (passive anting).

  5. Chestnut-backed antbird - Wikipedia

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    However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treats P. e. cassini and P. e. maculifer as a separate species, the short-tailed antbird Poliocrania maculifer, and retains the English name chestnut-backed antbird for the other three subspecies. [9] [10] This article follows the one-species, five-subspecies model.

  6. Spotted antbird - Wikipedia

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    It is a facultative army ant follower, catching about half of its prey as it flees the swarms. At swarms they sometimes loosely associate with mixed-species feeding flocks. They take the other half of their away from swarms, including an observation of a bird following an agouti to take prey it flushed. They forage as individuals or pairs, and ...

  7. List of antbird species - Wikipedia

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    The avian family Thamnophilidae is usually called the typical antbirds.The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 238 species distributed among 63 genera in the family, 24 of which have only one species. [1]

  8. White-plumed antbird - Wikipedia

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    White-plumed antbird Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Pithys Species: P. albifrons Binomial name Pithys albifrons (Linnaeus, 1766) Synonyms Pipra albifrons Linnaeus, 1766 The white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons) is a small species of ...

  9. Dull-mantled antbird - Wikipedia

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    Dull-mantled antbird Male at Tapir Lodge trails near Braulio Carrillo National Park (Costa Rica) Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Sipia Species: S. laemosticta Binomial name Sipia laemosticta (Salvin, 1865) Synonyms Myrmeciza laemosticta The ...