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Rusty-breasted Antpitta
Grallaricula ferrugineipectus (Sclater, PL, 1857)
Grallariidae — Antpittas
Rusty-breasted Antpitta, Grallaricula ferrugineipectus, is a passerine of humid montane forest in northern Venezuela and eastern Colombia. It lives in the undergrowth, especially where there are thickets, vine tangles and bamboo. The bird is a small antpitta with the sexes alike, and the nominate form shows a pale mark on the lores and a light arc behind the eye. Its breeding range runs from northern Venezuela to eastern Colombia, including the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and parts of the Venezuelan Andes and Eastern Andes.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Grallariidae — Antpittas
- Breeding range
- South America: n Venezuela to e Colombia
