The golden caterpillar , or the red-headed caterpillar [1] ( lat. Conopophaga aurita ), is a species of passerine bird from the caterpillar family (Conopophagidae) [2] . Its range covers the Amazon basin in northern Brazil , southern Colombia and the east of Peru and Ecuador , as well as Guyana , Suriname and French Guiana . Tropical moist low-lying forests are considered a natural habitat for birds. The species includes 2 taxa: Conopophaga snethlageae and Conopophaga pallida as subspecies . Due to differences in vocalization and morphology, Conopophaga snethlageae is sometimes considered a separate species, and Conopophaga pallida is a subspecies of Conopophaga snethlageae .
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Suborder : | Screaming passerines |
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Conopophaga aurita ( JF Gmelin , 1789 ) |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 103660322 |
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The golden caterpillar is a small dark bird with a relatively strong beak, a brown back and top (the latter often have a red tint), white eyebrows and pinkish-gray legs. The male has a black forehead, head and throat, a red breast and a yellow or white abdomen. The female has a red head, throat and chest, as well as a yellow or white abdomen. The male subspecies snethlageae and pallida are distinguished by black stripes of the head and throat that enter the center of the chest, as well as red backs bounded by the edges of the black chest.
The area of the golden caterpillar eater extends throughout the Amazon, concentrated in the Amazon basin . Typical boundaries of the range: they cover the entire lower reaches of half of the regions of the southern river basin, but do not affect Bolivia . Borders in the west cover the east and northeast of Peru and Ecuador , southern Colombia , as well as the northwest of the Rio Negro . The species was not found in the northern and central parts of the Amazon, as well as in most of the Brazilian state of Roraima .
The range in the northeast of the basin outside the Amazon stretches through the Guiana state of Amapa on the Atlantic coast, as well as the central and eastern part of the Guiana Highlands in the Guyana region.
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 233. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Antthrushes, antpittas, gnateaters, tapaculos, crescentchests : [ eng. ] / F. Gill & D. Donsker (Eds). // IOC World Bird List (v 8.2). - 2018 .-- DOI : 10.14344 / IOC.ML.8.2 . (Retrieved October 31, 2018) .
