Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Dutch | Roodrugmierpitta |
English | White-bellied Antpitta |
English (United States) | White-bellied Antpitta |
French | Grallaire à ventre blanc |
French (France) | Grallaire à ventre blanc |
German | Blassbauch-Ameisenpitta |
Japanese | シロハラクリセジアリドリ |
Norwegian | kalkbrystmaurpitta |
Polish | kusaczka białobrzucha |
Russian | Светлобрюхая питтовая муравьеловка |
Serbian | Belotrba mravlja pita |
Slovak | húštinár bielobruchý |
Spanish | Tororoí Ventriblanco |
Spanish (Ecuador) | Gralaria Ventriblanca (Tororoi Ventriblanco) |
Spanish (Peru) | Tororoi de Vientre Blanco |
Spanish (Spain) | Tororoí ventriblanco |
Swedish | vitbukig myrpitta |
Turkish | Ak Karınlı Yerçavuşu |
Ukrainian | Мурашниця білочерева |
White-bellied Antpitta Grallaria hypoleuca
Version: 1.0 — Published March 2, 2012
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Breeding
Introduction
Specimens of White-bellied Antpitta in breeding condition were collected from March-September in the central and eastern Andes of Colombia (Hilty and Brown 1986). A specimen from July in northern Peru contained a fully-formed, light blue egg in the oviduct (Parker et al. 1985).
A single nest has been described from primary cloud forest on the eastern Andean slope of Ecuador in May/June (Price 2003). It was located in a fork in the trunk of a live tree, about 1.25 m above the ground. The nest was a cup constructed from twigs and rootlets, and had an outside diameter of 14.2 cm, an inside diameter of 10.7 cm, and an inside depth of 6.4 cm.
The clutch was comprised of 2 light greenish eggs with spots that may have been nest stains. Eggs were 9.17 g and 7.85 g, and measured 32 x 24 mm and 30 x 23 mm (Price 2003).
Both parents shared incubation duties in bouts lasting 23-124 min (Price 2003). The adults were often absent in the early morning, but after about 9:00, the nest was continuously covered until at least 13:30. Exchanges between adults were brief and unceremonious, but adults sometimes arrived with a small twig that was added to the nest upon commencing incubation. No mate feeding was observed.
Hatchlings were covered in gray down and had orange bills and gapes (Price 2003). The nestling period was not determined, but is thought to be long in Grallaria antpittas (i.e., 17-21 days; Greeney et al. 2008).