Bertoni's antbird

Bertoni's antbird
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Drymophila
Species: D. rubricollis
Binomial name
Drymophila rubricollis
(Bertoni, 1901)

The Bertoni's antbird (Drymophila rubricollis) is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina (Misiones). It was formerly considered conspecific with the very similar ferruginous antbird.

The bird's common name commemorates the ornithologis Arnoldo de Winkelried Bertoni (1857-1929).[2]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Drymophila rubricollis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Boelens, Bo; Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 51.