Zeledon's antbird

Zeledon's antbird
Male, Tandayapa Bird Lodge, NW Ecuador
Conservation status
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Myrmeciza
Species:	M. zeledonia
Binomial name
Myrmeciza zeledonia (Ridgway, 1909)

Zeledon's antbird (Myrmeciza zeledonia) is a species of antbird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found at low levels in humid forests from Nicaragua to Panama, and in the Chocó of western Colombia and western Ecuador. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Myrmeciza immaculata. Zeledon's antbird feeds on insects, and regularly follows swarms of army ants in order to catch prey flushed by the swarms, but it is not an obligate ant-follower like some species of antbirds.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Costa Rican ornithologist José Cástulo Zeledón.^[1]

Male. Tandayapa Lodge, NW Ecuador

Female. Tandayapa Lodge, NW Ecuador

References

• Donegan, T. M. 2012. Geographical variation in Immaculate Antbird Myrmeciza immaculata, with a new subspecies from the Central Andes of Colombia. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 132: 3–40.
• South American Classification Committee (November 29, 2012). "Proposal (#541) to South American Classification Committee – Elevate Myrmeciza immaculata zeledoni to species rank.". Retrieved October 6, 2013.

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 377.

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