Myrmotherula sclateri
Sclater's Antwren (Myrmotherula sclateri) is a striking and active member of the antbird family, Thamnophilidae, inhabiting the canopy of humid lowland forests across northern South America. Males are distinguished by their bold black upperparts streaked with white on the crown and nape, black wings with two prominent white wing-bars, and white underparts heavily streaked with black, featuring a solid black throat and upper breast. Females present a more subdued but equally distinctive appear...
Found in humid tropical lowland and foothill forests, primarily utilizing the canopy and mid-story strata. It inhabits both terra firme and várzea forests, as well as transitional forest types.
Primarily insectivorous, its diet consists mainly of small insects such as beetles, ants, and caterpillars, as well as spiders. It forages by actively gleaning prey from foliage and small branches.
Sclater's Antwren is a diurnal species, active throughout the day searching for food in the forest canopy. It is a highly insectivorous bird, employing a gleaning foraging strategy where it rapidly picks insects and spiders from leaves and small branches. This species is a regular and often leadi...
Sclater's Antwren is broadly distributed across the Amazon basin and adjacent regions of northern South America, inhabiting humid lowland and foothill forests. Its range extends from eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, and the Guyanas, south through eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and northern B...
Least Concern
- Sclater's Antwren often acts as a 'nuclear species,' around which mixed-species foraging flocks coalesce in the Amazonian canopy. - The striking black and white streaking of the male makes it one of the most distinctly patterned antwrens in its genus. - It is one of the smaller members of the a...