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Scale-backed Antbirds
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Scale-backed Antbirds

Willisornis

Willisornis is a genus of birds in the family Thamnophilidae. These small, strongly sexually dichromatic birds are native to the Guianas and Amazon rainforest in South America, and often follow army ants.

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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

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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.