Endangered
Scalloped antbird
Myrmoderus ruficauda
Scalloped antbird is a perching bird in the family Thamnophilidae (order Passeriformes) — Myrmoderus ruficauda, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a black crown, nape, and upper back with white edges on the rearmost feathers. Their lower back is black with ochraceous-white feather edges, a rufous rump, and a white patch between their scapulars. Their flight feathers are brown with rufous edges.
The scalloped antbird is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long.
Range and habitat
The nominate subspecies is found in southeastern Bahia, extreme eastern Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo. Subspecies M. R. Soror is found further north between Paraíba and Alagoas. The species primarily inhabits semie-humid and humid evergreen forest and mature secondary woodland.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The scalloped antbird's diet has not been detailed but is known to include insects and other arthropods. Individuals, pairs, and family groups forage almost entirely on the ground.
The breeding season of M. R. Soror appears to extend to April. The species' nest is a cup made from dead leaves with a lining of thin plant fibers, placed on the ground or slightly above it in a tangle of vegetation.
In crisis
Scalloped antbird 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 Scalloped antbird, Wikidata item Q28864172. 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.
