Sooty ant tanager
Species of bird
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The sooty ant tanager (Driophlox gutturalis) is a species of bird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). It was formerly placed with the true tanagers in the family Thraupidae and was assigned to the genus Habia with the red-crowned ant tanager.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cardinalidae |
| Genus: | Driophlox |
| Species: | D. gutturalis |
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| Driophlox gutturalis (Sclater, PL, 1854) | |
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It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and secondary forest. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Taxonomy
The sooty ant tanager was formally described in 1854 by the English zoologist Philip Sclater under the binomial name Phoenicothraupis gutturalis.[2][3] The specific epithet gutturalis is Latin meaning "of the throat".[4] The sooty ant tanager is a monotypic species.[5]
Description
The sooty ant tanager is 19–20 cm (7.5–7.9 in) in overall length. The adult male is dark grey with a conspicuous scarlet crest (not always raised) and a rosy-red throat. The adult female is duller with a pinkish-white throat.[6]
Distribution and habitat
This bird is found in northwest Colombia, occurring in the Upper Sínu Valley at the northern end of the western Andes, and east along the north base of the Andes to the middle Magdalena River Valley.
Its natural habitat is humid tropical forests, edges, gaps and mature secondary forest. It prefers dense streamside and landslide habitats in extensive unbroken forest.[6]