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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).
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.
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.
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]
Bare-crowned antbird Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Gymnocichla P.L. Sclater, 1858 Species: G. nudiceps Binomial name Gymnocichla nudiceps (Cassin, 1850) The bare-crowned antbird (Gymnocichla nudiceps) is a species of bird in subfamily ...
The spotted antbird is socially monogamous and forms long-term pair bonds. Males court females with food offerings. Where the species' breeding season is known it coincides with the early part of the local wet season, for example from April to July in Costa Rica and somewhat earlier in Panama. Its nest is an open cup.
The dot-winged antwren (Microrhopias quixensis) or velvety antwren [2] is a passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". [3] It is found in Mexico , every Central American country except El Salvador , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , French Guiana , Guyana , Peru , and Suriname .
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.