The new name of the Antpitta that you photographed in Ventanas pass is Cham Antpitta (Grallaria Alvarezi) and its new for science !!!
Last Tuesday (21 July 2020) was published a new scientific paper that gives us a clear view of the Rufous Antpitta (Grallaria rufula) complex. Before this study, there was only one species of this Antpitta distributed from Venezuela to Bolivia throughout the Andes mountain range, but now we know there are not only one, in fact, there are 16 species !!!
In Colombia now we have 5 species more:
1. Cham Antpitta (Grallaria alvarezi), distributed in western Andes which is also new for science !!!
2. Equatorial Antpitta (Grallaria saturata), in the central Andes.
3. Muisca Antpitta (Grallaria rufula), in the eastern Andes.
4. Perij Antpitta (Grallaria saltuencis), in Serrana del Perij, northern Colombia.
5. Sierra Nevada Antpitta (Grallaria spatiator), in Santa Marta Mountains, northern Colombia.
Regards from Colombia.
Juan Carlos Obando Chacon.
The newly described Chami Antpitta is part of a big split of the Rufous Antpitta, and is found only in the western Andean chain in Colombia. It is a bit redder than others.
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