Rusty-breasted antpitta

Rusty-breasted antpitta
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Grallariidae
Genus: Grallaricula
Species: G. ferrugineipectus
Binomial name
Grallaricula ferrugineipectus
(Sclater, 1857)

The rusty-breasted antpitta (Grallaricula ferrugineipectus) is a species of bird in the Grallariidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy

The subspecies G. f. leymebambae is sometimes split as a full species, the Leymebamba antpitta (Grallaricula leymebambae).

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