Red-fronted antpecker

The red-fronted antpecker (Parmoptila rubrifrons) is a species of songbird found in Western Africa. Like all antpeckers, it is tentatively placed in the estrildid finch family (Estrildidae). It often contains the eastern Jameson's antpecker (P. jamesoni) as a subspecies.

Red-fronted antpecker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Parmoptila
Species:
P. rubrifrons
Binomial name
Parmoptila rubrifrons
(Sharpe & Ussher, 1872)
Global range

This bird inhabits tropical lowland moist forest in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. When Jameson's and the red-fronted antpeckers were still evaluated as one species, they were classified as a species of least concern by the IUCN.[2] However, the red-fronted antpecker is declining noticeably due to habitat destruction and has entirely disappeared from Mali for example. Therefore, its status has been changed to near threatened after the taxonomic split.[3]

Footnotes
  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Parmoptila rubrifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22735256A132185382. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22735256A132185382.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. BLI (2004)
  3. BLI (2008a,b)

References
  • Image at the Animal Diversity Web


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