Chestnut-tailed Antbird

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Chestnut-tailed Antbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Myrmeciza
Species: M. hemimelaena
Binomial name
Myrmeciza hemimelaena
Sclater, 1857

The Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Myrmeciza hemimelaena) is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. It is sometimes split into two species, the Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird, Myrmeciza hemimelaena and the Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird, Myrmeciza castanea.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.


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