Birds of Venezuela

    PASSERIFORMES: Grallariidae (Antpittas)  
Genus: Grallaria (10 species, 47 worldwide)

Genus Grallaria are antpittas, short-tailed insect-eating tropical birds that stand upright and hop along forest floor, almost never flying and rarely perching on branches. Sizes range from about 16 cm. to about 24 cm.


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Tachira Antpitta (Grallaria chthonia) Critically Endangered ENDEMIC
   



Great Antpitta
Great Antpitta (Grallaria excelsa excelsa) Near Threatened
west, Venezuela  
   
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com   © All Rights Reserved.


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Grey-naped Antpitta (Grallaria griseonucha) ENDEMIC
   



Scaled Antpitta
Scaled Antpitta (Grallaria guatimalensis regulus)
Kilometro 18, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

A large antpitta that sometimes goes into the canopy. Most closely related to the Moustached Antpitta.

Plain-backed Antpitta
Plain-backed Antpitta (Grallaria haplonota chaplinae)
Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

A smaller antpitta found at around 1500m that is very difficult to see.

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta
Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla ruficapilla)
Rio Blanco Ecological Reserve, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

This wide-ranging medium-sized species is generally the most frequently seen and heard cloud forest antpitta.

Muisca Antpitta
Muisca Antpitta (Grallaria rufula)
Chingaza, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Peter Hawrylyshyn   © All Rights Reserved.

Part of a five-way split of the Rufous Antpitta in Colombia, and found only in the eastern Andean chain (the Andes breaks into three ranges in south Colombia).

Perija Antpitta
Perija Antpitta (Grallaria saltuensis) Near Threatened
 
   
Photograph by Manakin Nature Tours - Luis UrueƱa   © All Rights Reserved.

Note large size, greyish color and white eye-ring, different from other species in the Rufous Antpitta complex.

Undulated Antpitta
Undulated Antpitta (Grallaria squamigera squamigera)
Rio Blanco Ecological Reserve, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Variegated Antpitta
Variegated Antpitta (Grallaria varia)
Parque Estadual da Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Dario Sanches     Copyright and usage info



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