Zeledons antbird (Hafferia zeledoni)

Zeledons antbird, Tatama National Park, Colombia Really happy to see this secretive forest dweller. Even when spotted, they are such a PITA to photograph. Very fast moving and always in thick foliage. This is the male. Closeup:
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Naming

Zeledon's antbird was at one time treated as a subspecies of the blue-lored antbird. It was also previously included in the genus "Myrmeciza". A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that "Myrmeciza", as then defined, was polyphyletic. In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera Zeledon's antbird was moved to the newly erected genus "Hafferia".

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Costa Rican ornithologist José Cástulo Zeledón.

Zeledons antbird - front view, Tatama National Park, Colombia Really happy to see this secretive forest dweller. Even when spotted, they are such a PITA to photograph. Very fast moving and always in thick foliage. This is the male. Cerro Montezuma,Choco,Chocó,Colombia,Colombia Choco & Pacific region,Fall,Geotagged,Hafferia zeledoni,Montezuma,South America,Tatama National Park,Tatamá National Park,World,Zeledons antbird

Food

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.

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Division	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Thamnophilidae
Genus	Hafferia
Species	H. zeledoni

Photographed in
Colombia