Red-fronted Antpecker
Rotstirn Ants Picker ( Parmoptila rubrifrons )
The Rotstirn Ants Picker ( Parmoptila rubrifrons ) is an African bird of the family of finches. The IUCN estimates that kind because of their fragmented distribution area as a potentially endangered ( near threatened ).
Description
Rotstirn Ants Picker reach a body size of 11 to 12.5 inches. They weigh from 8 to 10.5 grams. The male is on the forehead and anterior crown bright red. The top of the head and the neck are olive brown. The individual springs have here on whitish tips. The reins and head sides are olive-brown with a whitish speckling and dashes because the feathers have white spots and white tip shaft strokes. The chin is whitish, the rest of the underparts contrast maroon dark. The wings are dark gray-brown, the wings are bright hemmed. The beak is black. The iris is chestnut brown to red.
The females lack the red forehead of the male. The front skull is as the rest back of the head olive-brown with ocher-colored tips. The body underside is creamy and works through the dark brown mottled feather lace. Juveniles are colored on the body top more solid color than the adult birds. On the body top they are pale reddish brown with dark spots.
Circulation area and way of life
The Rotstirn Ants Picker occurs in West Africa in Mali, in the territory of the Gola Forest National Park in Sierra Leone as well as something more common in Liberia, Guinea and Ghana. He is a bound on the nature and forests occurs mainly near water. He studied preferably in the tree layer at altitudes of between five and ten meters for insects. The diet consists mainly of ants.
The reproductive biology of this species is so far little explored. The previously found three nests were an accumulation of grass and leaves and up to 40 inches wide. The nests were located between 2.5 and 3.5 meters above the ground in small trees of the undergrowth. A nest was built solely by the female for a period of eight days.