Planalto Slaty-Antshrike (Thamnophilus pelzelni)
Male Planalto Slaty-Antshrike, Peruaçu, Minas Gerais, Brazil, February 2002 - click for larger image Brazil

There has been a lot of work done on the Slaty-Antshrike complex in recent years and, what was once regarded as a single species, Thamnophilus punctatus, has now been split into 7 species of which this is one. (See comments under Eastern Slaty-Antshrike).

The male bird in the first photo was in deciduous forest at Peruaçu, Minas Gerais, while the other two birds were seen in caatinga in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia.

Female Planalto Slaty-Antshrike, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, July 2002 - click for larger image There is an illustration of Eastern (Northern) Slaty-Antshrike, T. punctatus, in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 17;
Male Planalto Slaty-Antshrike, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, July 2002 - click for larger image
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