Red-fronted antpecker
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Parmoptila rubrifrons

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.

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

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Red-fronted antpecker habitat map
Red-fronted antpecker habitat map
Red-fronted antpecker
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References

1. Red-fronted antpecker Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-fronted_antpecker
2. Red-fronted antpecker on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22735256/132185382
3. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/710173

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