Endangered
Cundinamarca Antpitta
Grallaria kaestneri
Cundinamarca Antpitta is a perching bird in the family Grallariidae (order Passeriformes) — Grallaria kaestneri, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The sexes have similar plumage at all ages. Overall the adult Cundinamarca antpitta is a dull olive-brown bird with white streaking on the underparts. The feathers of the bird's back are an olive-brown that are fringed with a thin band of sooty-black, giving the bird the appearance of possessing very faint barring.
The Cundinamarca antpitta is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long.
Range and habitat
Even so, it appears to have been extirpated from the northern part of its historical range. It inhabits humid montane forest and mature secondary woodland, where it greatly favors dense vegetation in the understorey. It does occur at forest edges and gaps caused by fallen trees, but only when they have much low vegetation.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Cundinamarca antpitta's diet has not been detailed but is known to include insects (adult and larval), spiders, and probably earthworms. It hops and then pauses to probe the soil and move leaves to find prey, and seldom flies more than a few meters.
"ithin its dense habitat, the bird is not particularly shy, and may approach a motionless observer closely", that hints that it might forage in the wake of forest mammals such as tapirs. Evidence from observations and specimens suggests that the Cundinamarca antpitta breeds in the last half of the year. Nothing else is known about its breeding biology.
In crisis
Cundinamarca Antpitta is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Cundinamarca Antpitta, Wikidata item Q606642. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
