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Cocha Antshrike
Thamnophilus praecox Zimmer, JT, 1937
Thamnophilidae — Antbirds
Cocha Antshrike, Thamnophilus praecox, is a passerine of the antbird family that breeds in north-east Ecuador. It is also recorded from adjacent Colombia and northern Peru. The bird is a local inhabitant of blackwater river edges in seasonally flooded várzea forest, where it keeps to dense tangles and thickets. It is a monotypic species and is linked most closely with the Black Antshrike. Adult males are black apart from white underwing coverts, while females show a black head, throat and upper breast with the rest of the plumage cinnamon-rufous. It is a year-round resident.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thamnophilidae — Antbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: ne Ecuador
