Sooty Ant-tanager | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cardinalidae |
Genus: | Habia |
Species: | H. gutturalis |
Binomial name | |
Habia gutturalis (Sclater, 1854) |
The Sooty Ant-tanager (Habia gutturalis) is a species of bird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae); formerly, it was placed with the true tanagers in the Thraupidae.
It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.