Blackish-grey Antshrike
A species of Typical antshrikes Scientific name : Thamnophilus nigrocinereus Genus : Typical antshrikes
Blackish-grey Antshrike, A species of Typical antshrikes
Botanical name: Thamnophilus nigrocinereus
Genus: Typical antshrikes
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Description General Info
Description
The blackish-grey antshrike (Thamnophilus nigrocinereus) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae, the antbirds. The species is found in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and eastern French Guiana; also a small river region of northeast Bolivia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It got its name "blackish-grey antshrike" because of its blackish-grey color, distinguishing it from other antshrikes. 
Size
17 cm
Feeding Habits
Blackish-grey Antshrike's primary diet consists of a variety of insects and arthropods, including crickets, cockroaches, moths, caterpillars, stick-insects, bugs, beetles, and hymenopterans. They forage low to the ground, utilizing hops and short flights, with distinctive feeding behaviors such as reaching down to snatch prey or jumping to glean from leaf undersides. Unique adaptations include hanging from roots in mangrove forests to feed.
Habitat
Blackish-grey Antshrike typically inhabits the understorey and mid-storey of various forest environments. This includes seasonally flooded evergreen forests, gallery forests, and savanna woodlands with scrubby vegetation. Predominantly found in Amazonian river islands and riverine borders, it thrives in the dense undergrowth of várzea and igapó forests and in thickets along riverbanks. Additionally, blackish-grey Antshrike occupies stunted, white-sand savanna woodlands and gallery forests where it adapts to seasonal flooding. Coastal regions host blackish-grey Antshrike in younger and middle-stage mangroves, with a preference for areas densely vegetated by a mix of white and red mangroves, extending to vegetated river edges further inland.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Distribution Area
The blackish-grey antshrike is found in Brazil's southeastern Amazon Basin as well as along the Amazon River proper, and northwards at the Amazon's outlet, into the extreme eastern areas of French Guiana with Brazil's northeast state of Amapá. The southeast range extends slightly southwestward into that quadrant, about 1000–1400 km, and its eastern limit is the final 950 km of the Tocantins River drainage. On the west bordering some of the southwest quadrant, the range is limited by the Madeira River and continues upstream into extreme northeast Bolivia for 75 km in an area around the Madeira and Guaporé River confluence. To the east the range is contiguous and covers the river drainages of the Tapajós, Xingu River, and lower Tocantins River, a range of about 3500 km. The northwest extension of the range expands from the Amazon River northwestwards upstream on the Rio Negro, (as a river corridor) into eastern and central Colombia, also eastward and north into central and southern Venezuela into the Orinoco River drainage. In the central Orinoco drainage, it does not range away from the river northwards, nor is it found in the lower third of the drainage to the Caribbean.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Antbirds Genus
Typical antshrikes Species
Blackish-grey Antshrike 
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