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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. 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]

  4. Antpitta - Wikipedia

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    These are forest birds that tend to feed at or near the ground since many are specialist ant eaters. Most are drab in appearance with shades of (rusty) brown, black, and white being their dominant tones. Compared to other birds that specialize in following ants, this family is the most tied to the ground.

  5. 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).

  6. Ant follower - Wikipedia

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    The bicoloured antbird is an obligate ant-follower.. Ant followers are birds that feed by following swarms of army ants and take prey flushed by those ants. [1] The best-known ant-followers are 18 species of antbird in the family Thamnophilidae, but other families of birds may follow ants, including thrushes, chats, ant-tanagers, cuckoos, motmots, and woodcreepers.

  7. 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.

  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 ...