Diet and Foraging

Diet and foraging behavior are poorly known. Forages restlessly in dense undergrowth, likely consuming mainly insects and other small invertebrates gleaned from low undergrowth.

Microhabitat for Foraging

Information needed. Forages primarily in dense undergrowth of herbs, shrubs, and vines; may also descend to the ground to forage in leaflitter (3 Williams, J. G. (1951). Notes on Scepomycter winifredae and Cinnyris loveridgei. Ibis 93:469–470. Close ).

Food Capture and Consumption

Information needed. Believed to obtain prey mainly by gleaning arthropods from leaves and branches of herbs, shrubs, and vines in the forest undergrowth; may also obtain prey from leaflitter and debris on the ground (3 Williams, J. G. (1951). Notes on Scepomycter winifredae and Cinnyris loveridgei. Ibis 93:469–470. Close ).

Major Food Items

The stomachs of 6 specimens examined contained mainly insects, including weevils and other beetles (Coleoptera) and earwigs (Dermaptera), larvae and pupae of butterflies, but also spider fragments (3 Williams, J. G. (1951). Notes on Scepomycter winifredae and Cinnyris loveridgei. Ibis 93:469–470. Close ).

Quantitative Analysis

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