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Red fronted antpecker

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Passeriformes

Genus
  
Parmoptila

Higher classification
  
Antpecker

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Estrildidae

Scientific name
  
Parmoptila rubrifrons

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Antpecker, Jameson's antpecker, Woodhouse's antpecker, Chestnut‑breasted nigrita, Chad firefinch

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.

This bird inhabits tropical lowland moist forest in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and CĂ´te 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. 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.

References

Red-fronted antpecker Wikipedia