Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestCup nestMedium · 83 g

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla), photo 1 — Photo: Alina Martin · CC BY 4.0

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla), photo 2 — Photo: Nicolás Baresch Uribe · CC BY 4.0

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla), photo 3 — Photo: Alina Martin · CC BY 4.0

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla), photo 4 — Photo: Peter Archdale · CC BY 4.0

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla), photo 5 — Photo: Peter Archdale · CC BY 4.0

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla), photo 6 — Photo: Ryan F. Mandelbaum · CC BY 4.0

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla), photo 7 — Photo: Ryan F. Mandelbaum · CC BY 4.0

What the Chestnut-crowned Antpitta sounds like

Sonogram of the Chestnut-crowned Antpitta: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Nicolas Betancourt Cardona · La Calera, Cundinamarca, Colombia · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Loja: Celica mts.: w-slope between Celica and Guachanamá, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Loja: Celica mts: E Alamor: Tierra Colorada, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

Grallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills very short tails". The chestnut-crowned antpitta is 18 to 23 cm (7.1 to 9.1 in) long and weighs 70 to 98 g (2.5 to 3.5 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies G. r. ruficapilla have a rufous crown, nape, and face. Their back, rump, tail, and wings are olivaceous. Their throat, breast, and belly are white with ochraceous edges on some breast feathers and olivaceous and blackish streaks on their sides and sometimes their breast. Voice: The chestnut-crowned antpitta sings both from the ground and from low perch. Its song is "a monotonously repeated, three-note, wheee, whooo-whooo", also written as "wheee whuuu wheuu", "hee hoo-HEW", and "püe, paaw, puuee". The species' alarm call is "a one note, sharp peeyu!".

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When to see the Chestnut-crowned Antpitta

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chestnut-crowned Antpitta

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Ecuador Peru Venezuela

About the Chestnut-crowned Antpitta

The chestnut-crowned antpitta is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

Tawny AntpittaGrallaria quitensisThe tawny antpitta is 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) long and weighs between 58 and 81 g (2.0 and 2.9 oz).

Scaled AntpittaGrallaria guatimalensisGrallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills very short tails".

Equatorial AntpittaGrallaria saturataGrallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills very short tails".

Side by side: Chestnut-crowned Antpitta vs Tawny Antpitta · Chestnut-crowned Antpitta vs Scaled Antpitta · Chestnut-crowned Antpitta vs Equatorial Antpitta

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