Endangered
Jocotoco Antpitta
Grallaria ridgelyi
Jocotoco Antpitta is a perching bird in the family Grallariidae (order Passeriformes) — Grallaria ridgelyi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Grallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills very short tails". The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a black crown and brownish olive nape.
It is 20 to 24 cm (7.9 to 9.4 in) long and weighs about 150 to 200 g (5.3 to 7.1 oz).
Range and habitat
It was originally believed to be limited to the upper Chinchipe River drainage in Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador, but in 2006 a population was discovered in Cordillera del Cóndor in Cajamarca, Peru. It inhabits steep slopes within wet, dense, mossy forest with Chusquea bamboo stands and silvery-leaved Cecropia trees. In Ecuador it occurs between 2,300 and 2,650 m (7,500 and 8,700 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
There they are fed earthworms, that are thought to also be a large part of their natural diet. In the wild they also feed on arthropods and other invertebrates.
The jocotoco antpitta's breeding season is not known but includes November. The first nest discovered was a deep cup made mostly from decaying leaves lined with fine rootlets and fern stems.
In crisis
Jocotoco 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 Jocotoco Antpitta, Wikidata item Q1263452. 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.
