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 NT    Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Polioptila lactea

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher, Creamy Gnatcatcher, Cream-colored Gnatcatcher, Cream-coloured Gnatcatcher

Family
Polioptilidae (Gnatcatchers)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sharpe, 1885

Habitat
Canopy and sub-canopy of lowland primary forest. Also, degraded forest and secondary growth. From sea-level - 400 m.

Range (Guide)
Argentina (B), Brazil (B), Paraguay (B).

Southern Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul and southern Espí­rito Santo to northern Rio Grande do Sul), south-eastern Paraguay (eastern Alto Paraná) and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones, northern Corrientes).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010) and decreasing.

Status NT
Habitat destruction and degradation through agricultural conversion and deforestation for mining and plantation production, urbanisation, industrialisation, agricultural expansion, colonisation and associated road-building, are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)

 
Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher (Polioptila lactea) [XC716386]
     by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from PN Iguacu, Parana state, Brazil (call)

 
Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher (Polioptila lactea) [XC17071]
     by Adrian Eisen Rupp from Mbaracay\u00fa, Canindeyu, Paraguay (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Possibly forms a superspecies with Tropical Gnatcatcher (Polioptila plumbea), and some earlier suggestions are that they may be conspecific.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher (Polioptila lactea) - 10 files


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