Wikipedia: Scale-backed antbird Source: WIKIPEDIA
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Observations
🔍 No documented observation
Description
Classification: Genus
Willisornis (
Willisornis); Family
Thamnophilidae (
Thamnophilidae)
General:
The common scale-backed antbird (Willisornis poecilinotus) is a species of passerine bird in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. As with other species of antbirds, it regularly follows swarms of army ants as they flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.
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