Stub-tailed antbird

Sipia berlepschi

The stub-tailed antbird is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Stub-tailed Antbird (Sipia berlepschi) Such a great, uncommon antbird. We watched two parents feeding a fledgling at San Cipriano, Colombia. Colombia,Geotagged,Sipia berlepschi,Stub-tailed antbird

Appearance

The stub-tailed antbird was described by the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert in 1898 and given the binomial name "Pyriglena berlepschi". The species was named to honour the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch. The species was later placed in the genus "Myrmeciza" but a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that the genus "Myrmeciza", as then defined, was polyphyletic. In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the stub-tailed antbird was moved to a resurrected genus "Sipia" which had been introduced by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1924.

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyThamnophilidae
GenusSipia
SpeciesS. berlepschi
Photographed in
Colombia