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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. List of antbird genera - Wikipedia

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    The list of genera below follows the World Bird List maintained by Frank Gill, David Donsker and Pamela Rasmussen on behalf of the International Ornithologists' Union. [2] The division of the genera into subfamilies and tribes follows the phylogeny published by Jan Ohlson and colleagues in 2013 as well as the list maintained by Joseph del Hoyo ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of birds by common name - Wikipedia

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    In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents

  7. 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).

  8. 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.

  9. White-masked antbird - Wikipedia

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    White-masked antbird Conservation status Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thamnophilidae Genus: Pithys Species: P. castaneus Binomial name Pithys castaneus Berlioz, 1938 Synonyms Pithys castanea The white-masked antbird (Pithys castaneus) is a Near Threatened species of bird in ...