Rio Branco antbird

The Rio Branco antbird (Cercomacra carbonaria) is a bird species in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil (Roraima) and Guyana.[1] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is severely threatened by habitat loss.[1]
The Rio Branco antbird was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1873 and given its current binomial nameCercomacra carbonaria.[2]
It was listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List in 2008.[3] In 2012, it was assessed as Critically Endangered by BirdLife International, which says the species likely to go extinct in twenty years if deforestation continues at its current pace.[4]
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