Recurve-billed Bushbird
Clytoctantes alixii
- Endangered
- Card rarity: Epic
- Birds
The recurve-billed bushbird is an Endangered species of Thamnophilid antbird that inhabits dense stands of secondary vegetation at the northern end of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela. It is named for its extraordinary bill, which curves upwards. Until 2007, the bird was almost unknown in life and apart from earlier specimens it had only been seen in life once at an army ant swarm in Colombia in 1965.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thamnophilidae
- Genus
- Clytoctantes