Female © Bradley Hacker 🦜
Male and female © Steve McInnis
Female © Stephen Davies
Male © Carlos Pedro
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Female © Daniel López-Velasco | Ornis Birding Expeditions
Male © Miguel Rouco

Jameson's Antpecker Parmoptila jamesoni

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Identification

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A small, slender-billed, warbler-like waxbill with pinkish-brown legs and different-looking sexes: the male has a red forehead, dull brown upperparts, and a rusty-chestnut face and underparts, while the female has a tawny-brown face and cheeks, pale buff underparts with scattered dark chevrons, and dull brown upperparts. Pairs and small groups forage by themselves or in mixed-species flocks, in the understory and middle levels of primary, secondary, and gallery forest, often near water. Eats insects, with a fondness for ants. Call is a high-pitched, downslurred “whseet.”

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