Chestnut-belted Gnateater

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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Conopophagidae
Genus:	Conopophaga
Species:	C. aurita

Binomial name

Conopophaga aurita
(Gmelin, 1789)

The Chestnut-belted Gnateater (Conopophaga aurita) is a species of bird in the Conopophagidae family, the gnateaters. It is found in the Amazon Basin of northern Brazil, southern Colombia and eastern Peru and Ecuador; also the Guianan countries of Guyana, Suriname and eastern French Guiana. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

1 Overview
2 Distribution
- 2.1 Range: Guianas, Rio Negro to southern Amazon Basin
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[edit] Overview

It is a small dark brown bird with a distinctive bright reddish-chestnut breast or upper breast. This is also contrasted with a deep black throat patch, combined with a deep black forehead and face patch; a narrow pure white upper eyestripe with short extended feathers is behind the eye and combines with its brown crown feathers and extends toward the upper back. It has a short mildly stout bill, and buff colored legs.

[edit] Distribution

[edit] Range: Guianas, Rio Negro to southern Amazon Basin

The range of the Chestnut-belted Gnateater is throughout the Amazon Basin, centered on the Amazon River. The following range limits are: it covers the entire downstream half of the regions in the south Basin and does not extend into Bolivia. The limits in the west are eastern and northeastern Peru with parts of northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia; the limit in this area in the west and northwest is the Rio Negro and the species is not found in the north central Amazon Basin of most of Brazil's Roraima state.

The range in the northeast Basin beyond the Amazon River outlet extends through Amapá state into the Guianas to the Atlantic coast, and the central and eastern Guiana Shield to include only eastern Guyana.