A pair of Equatorial Antpittas can be bribed with mealworms to appear at Hacienda El Bosque, a popular birding lodge at an altitude 11,000 feet (3,350 metres) in the Cordillera Central of the Colombian Andes.
This bird is found in damp forest in three isolated populations. All three populations occur in Colombia but only one of these extends south to Ecuador and northern Peru.
As a recognised species (Grallaria saturata) separate from the Rufous Antpitta (G. refula) it comes and goes with ‘splitters’ appearing at the moment to be pulling the case in their direction.
Antpittas are small birds feeding mainly on the forest floor and some do follow follow ants. There are more than 60 species in South and Central America and since the early 2000s have been placed in their own family, the Grallariidae.
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| The resident pair The one in the front hopped into frame while the camera focus was locked on the one ar the back |
