Stripe-chested antwren (Myrmotherula longicauda)

Laguna El Oconal, Villa Rica, Pasco, Peru. Jan 19, 2020

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Ferdy Christant

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Superb shot! Posted 5 years ago
1. Thibaud Aronson
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks! As I'm sure you've experienced as well, these small antwrens are usually pretty conspicuous in lowland forests, much less so at higher elevations. I'd been walking the trails around this lake (1500 masl) for a couple days without so much as a hint of them, though I knew from eBird they'd been reported from there. But suddenly, as I walked past an auspicious looking spot, I was inspired to play a bit of song, and nearly immedialy, a pair of these popped up to investigate, giving me this nice photo op :) Posted 5 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    That's cool! I remember our guide obsessing over antwrens without personally knowing much about them, and indeed we struggled a lot to find them. Posted 5 years ago
  2. 1. Thibaud Aronson
      
      Lion
      
      They don't have the mystique of the larger, terrestrial antbirds, but I still like them a lot :) Posted 5 years ago
    2. 1. Ferdy Christant
        
        Lion
        
        "I'm but a simple man. When I see ant in a bird's name, I click." Posted 5 years ago

The Stripe-chested antwren

The stripe-chested antwren is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae found in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and southwestern Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

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Similar species: Perching Birds

Species identified by Thibaud Aronson

By Thibaud Aronson

Uploaded May 27, 2020. Captured Jan 19, 2020 09:01 in Alto Cedropampa, Villa Rica 19300, Peru.

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Canon EOS 7D Mark II
f/10.0
1/160s
ISO3200
560mm

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