Watkins's Antpitta

Grallaria watkinsi

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestMedium · 70 g

What the Watkins's Antpitta sounds like

Sonogram of the Watkins's Antpitta: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Loja: nw-end Jorupe Reserve, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Watkins's Antpitta: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Manabí: Río Ayampe, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Watkins's Antpitta: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Manabí: Río Ayampe, 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". Watkins's antpitta is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long and weighs 58 to 84 g (2.0 to 3.0 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a pale rufous crown and nape, with thin whitish streaks on both and black spots on the forecrown. They have white lores, a white ring around the eye, pale olive upper ear coverts, and white lower ear coverts with thin olive streaks. Their back and tail are pale olive with some white streaks on the lower back. Voice: The song of Watkins's antpitta is "a series of 4-7 well-enunciated and emphatic whistled notes, the first set all similar but the last longer and sharply upslurred, e.g., keeu, keew-kew-kew k-wheeeei?". Another description is "an accelerating series of descending hollow notes ending with a longer rising note: CLEW clew-clew'clew'clew cu-HOOEE?".

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When to see the Watkins's Antpitta

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

Where to see the Watkins's Antpitta

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Watkins's Antpitta

Watkins's antpitta is a Near Threatened species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

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