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 NT    Red-fronted Antpecker* Id (Atlas):
    Parmoptila rubrifrons

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Red-fronted Antpecker, (Red-fronted) Flowerpecker Weaver-finch, Red-faced Flower-pecker

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 - 11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe & Ussher, 1872)

Habitat
Lowland tropical moist forest, showing a preference for primary forest.

Range (Guide)
Côte dIvoire (B) (NB), Guinea (B) (NB), Liberia (B) (NB), Mali (B) (NB), Sierra Leone (B) (NB).

Sierra Leone, south-eastern Guinea, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast and southern Ghana.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010) and decreasing.

Status NT
Habitat fragmentation through logging and clearance is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

 
Red-fronted Antpecker (Parmoptila rubrifrons) [XC352217]
     by Patrik \u00c5berg from Ankasa NR, Ghana (call)

 
Red-fronted Antpecker (Parmoptila rubrifrons) [XC352216]
     by Hans Matheve from Ankasa NR, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Parmoptila rubrifrons (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Red-fronted Antpecker (Parmoptila rubrifrons) and Jameson's Antpecker (Parmoptila jamesoni) following Woodcock (2003).

Thought to form a superspecies with Woodhouse's Antpecker (Parmoptila woodhousei) and Jameson's Antpecker (Parmoptila jamesoni) and sometimes treated as conspecific with Jameson's Antpecker (Parmoptila jamesoni) or, less often, with both.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Red-fronted Antpecker (Parmoptila rubrifrons) - 10 files


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