Plain-backed Antpitta (Grallaria haplonota)

Family
Grallariidae (Antpittas)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sclater, 1877

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 700 - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (38)...)

Plain-backed Antpitta (Grallaria haplonota) [XC250198]
by Niels Krabbe from El Oro: Reserva Buenaventura 9 km WNW Pi\u00f1as, Ecuador (song)

Plain-backed Antpitta (Grallaria haplonota) [XC617909]
by Leonardo Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez-Delgado from Pava Negra Nature Reserve - Florencia, Caquet\u00e1., Colombia (song)

Subspecies
Racial allocation of birds from Amazonian slope of eastern Andes, in Colombia, and of others in San Mart��n, in northern Peru, not yet determined. Both populations tentatively placed with chaplinae, but further study is required.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

haplonota Sclater, 1877 - Northern Venezuela in interior chain in Lara, and coastal mountains (except Paria Peninsula).
pariae Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1949 - Paria Peninsula.
parambae Rothschild, 1900 - Pacific slope from western Colombia (Risaralda) to southern Ecuador (El Oro).
chaplinae Robbins & Ridgely, 1986 - Amazonian slope of eastern Andes in Colombia, and eastern Ecuador and northern Peru (Cordillera del C�ndor in extreme north, also San Mart��n).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Plain-backed Antpitta (Grallaria haplonota) - 10 files

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