Scale-backed Antbirds
Willisornis
Willisornis is a genus of insectivorous passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. These small, strongly sexually dichromatic birds are native to the Guianas and Amazon rainforest in South America, and often follow army ants.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species
Common Scale-backed Antbird
speciesWillisornis poecilinotus
Xingu Scale-backed Antbird
speciesWillisornis vidua
Willisornis poecilinotus × vidua
hybridWillisornis poecilinotus × vidua
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71786.