Ochre-fronted antpitta  (Grallaricula ochraceifrons)

Description

Discovered in 1976, this little-known bird has only been recorded in a small area of inaccessible cloud forest on the eastern slope of the Andes (3). The male ochre-fronted antpitta has, as its name suggests, an ochre coloured face and eye-ring. The female is less deserving of the name, with the brown crown having only a faint wash of ochre. The upperparts are chiefly olive-brown, with buff-tinged flanks, and the underparts are white and heavily streaked with black (2). The ochre-fronted antpitta belongs to the antbird family, called so because many of the species follow army ants, preying on the insects and small animals that they flush out (4).

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