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Antpittas are curious long-legged, short-tailed furnariids that usually are restricted to dense cover and are typically very hard to see. This individual is an exception: it (and several other species including the slate-crowned and bicolored antpittas) have been painstakingly tamed to come to offerings of earthworms. It was photographed at Rio Blanco Lodge near Manizales, in the Central Andes of Colombia. Chestnut-crowned antpittas are large and fairly aggressive; this one very effectively kept a smaller brown-banded antpitta away from the worms. |
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