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Matracão (Giant Antshrike) - Male

Batara cinerea (Vieillot, 1819)

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Description:

The Giant Antshrike is a bird of Thamnophilidae family, which shows sexual dimorphism, and theses pictures show the male, that differs from females only in its colors, but in size, both have about 34cm long. <br>
Their food consists of small vertebrates like frogs, rodents, birds chicks, lizards, snakes, large arthropods and terrestrial snails.

Habitat:

This species lives in little time in the dense thickets of bamboo stumps and is found more often on steep slopes made by ferns in acid soils. Live couples, moving close to the ground like a squirrel, making it difficult to observe, betrayed by the voice.<br><br>

These photos were taken in the Atlantic Forest, about 840m above sea level.

Notes:

The town of the coordinates that I gave for search, is not DUQUE DE CAXIAS, as reports the search map of this page, but PETRÓPOLIS.

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