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Spotted Antbirds (Hylophylax naevioides)

Posted on Feb 14, 2015

Spotted Antbirds (Hylophylax naevioides)

I thought I would share a couple of pairs today for Valentine’s Day, the first being this female and male Spotted Antbird (Hylophylax naevioides) by RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser. As Sean tells it they are a species that follows army ant swarms, feeding on a wide variety of insects that the ants turn up. In the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama there are a wide variety of antbird species that inhabit the mature secondary and lowland primary forest. This duo was photographed by Sean for the Meet Your Neighbours global biodiversity project in Panama while on assignment for the Roger Tory...

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