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Moustached Antpitta

ID Features: Medium-sided antpitta. Typical antpitta shape: plump and short-tailed with long legs, like a grapefruit on stilts. Mostly brown with a brighter cinnamon belly and grayish crown. Note blotchy white mustache stripe. Very similar in appearance  to Scaled Antpitta but typically occurs at slightly higher elevations. Moustached has a less pronounced scaly pattern on the upperparts, browner cheeks, and a slower higher-pitched song without a stutter in the middle than Scaled Antpitta. Very rarely seen; typically stays hidden in the dense understory, occasionally hopping onto forest trails ad dawn or dusk. 
Habitat: Fairly rare and local within limited range in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Occurs in mossy cloud forest in the lower subtropics from around 1,850 to 2,000 meters. 
Locations: Colombia, Ecuador

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