Habitat

The White-throated Antpitta occupies the understory of humid montane forest (43 Parker T. A., III, S. A. Parker, and M. A. Plenge (1982). An Annotated Checklist of Peruvian Birds. Buteo Books, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA. Close , 32 Parker, T. A., and R. A. Rowlett (1984). Some noteworthy records of birds from Bolivia. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 104(3):110-113. Close , 34 Hennessey, A. B., S. K. Herzog, and F. Sagot (2003). Lista Anotada de las Aves de Bolivia. Fifth edition. Asociación Armonía/BirdLife International, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Close ). In Peru, it occurs in tall humid forest (2 Schulenberg, T. S., and G. M. Kirwan (2012). White-throated Antpitta (Grallaria albigula). In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor), Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. Available at https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.whtant2.01. Close ), but at some sites in Bolivia the species frequents shrubby areas, bamboo patches, second growth, and scrub habitat (33 Fjeldså, J., and S. Mayer (1996). Recent Ornithological Surveys in Valles Region, Southern Bolivia, and the Possible Role of Valles for the Evolution of the Andean Avifauna. Technical Report 1. DIVA, Rønde, Denmark. Close , 44 Macleod, R., S. K. Ewing, S. K. Herzog, R. Bryce, K. L. Evans, and A. Maccormick (2005). First ornithological inventory and conservation assessment for the yungas forests of the Cordilleras Cocapata and Mosetenes, Cochabamba, Bolivia. Bird Conservation International 15:361–382. Close ). In Bolivia it is also found in semi-deciduous forest and alder (Alnus) woodland (39 Schulenberg, T. S., and K. Awbrey (1997). A rapid assessment of the humid forests of south central Chuquisaca, Bolivia. RAP Working Paper No. 8. Conservation International, London, UK. Close , 9 Krabbe, N., and T. S. Schulenberg (2003). Family Formicariidae (ground-antbirds). In Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. A. Christie, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain. pp. 682–731. Close ), and in the Argentine portion of its range the species occupies humid temperate forests dominated by walnuts (Juglans) and Cedrela, with a rather shrubby understory (21 Olrog, C. C., and F. Contino (1970). Una nueva subespecie de Grallaria albigula Chapman (Aves, Formicariidae). Neotrópica 16:51–52. Close ). Surveys of the drier inter-Andean valleys in Cochabamba failed to find this species, although it occurs at similar elevations on more humid slopes (45 Herzog, S. K., J. Fjeldså, M. Kessler, and J. A. Balderrama (1999). Ornithological surveys in the Cordillera Cocapata, Dpto. Cochabamba, Bolivia, a transition zone between humid and dry intermontane Andean habitats. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 119(3):162–177. Close ).

Across its entire range, the White-throated Antpitta occurs at 600–2,700 m (16 de la Peña, M. R. (1988). Guía de Aves Argentinas. Volume 5. Passeriformes. Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Formicariidae, Tyrannidae. Literature of Latin America, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Close , 46 Sibley, C. G., and B. L. Monroe (1990). Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Close , 47 Fraga, R., and R. Clark (1999). Notes on the avifauna of the upper Bermejo River (Argentina and Bolivia) with a new species for Argentina. Cotinga 12:77-78. Close , 34 Hennessey, A. B., S. K. Herzog, and F. Sagot (2003). Lista Anotada de las Aves de Bolivia. Fifth edition. Asociación Armonía/BirdLife International, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Close , 8 Ridgely, R. S., and G. Tudor (2009). Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America: The Passerines. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, USA. Close ), but seems to be most frequently recorded at 1,200–2,100m (38 Maijer, S., M. B. Christiansen, and E. Pitter (2000). Birds observed along the road Vallegrande - Masicurí, depot. Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 1991-1993. http://www.bolivianbeauty.com/Vallegrande-Masicuri/Trip%20report%20Masicuri%201993,%20version%20october%202000.pdf Close , 30 Walker, B., D. F. Stotz, T. Pequeño, and J. W. Fitzpatrick (2006). Birds of the Manu Biosphere Reserve. In Mammals and Birds of the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru (B. D. Patterson, D. F. Stotz, and S. Solari, Editors). Fieldiana: Zoology, Chicago, IL, USA. pp. 23–49. Close , 48 Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, D. F. Lane, J. P. O'Neill, and T. A. Parker (2007). Birds of Peru. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Close , 49 Jankowski, J. E. (2010). Distributional ecology and diversity patterns of tropical montane birds. Ph.D. thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. Close ). The species seems to have a greater elevational range, at least in some areas, near the southern end of its distribution (16 de la Peña, M. R. (1988). Guía de Aves Argentinas. Volume 5. Passeriformes. Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Formicariidae, Tyrannidae. Literature of Latin America, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Close , 33 Fjeldså, J., and S. Mayer (1996). Recent Ornithological Surveys in Valles Region, Southern Bolivia, and the Possible Role of Valles for the Evolution of the Andean Avifauna. Technical Report 1. DIVA, Rønde, Denmark. Close ), perhaps due to the lack of a higher elevation congener. The upper elevational limit of 3,200 m cited by BirdLife International (50 BirdLife International (2012). Grallaria albigula. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T22703302A39184504. Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T22703302A39184504.en. Close ) appears erroneous. Although the precise habitat requirements are unknown, competition with congeners may be a factor in some regions, as it is replaced by the Red-and-white Antpitta at higher elevations in the north of its range (1 Clements, J. F., and N. Shany (2001). A Field Guide to the Birds of Peru. Ibis Publishing Company, Temecula, CA, USA. Close ) and by the Rufous-faced Antpitta in parts of its southern range (3 Ridgely, R. S., and G. Tudor (1994). The Birds of South America. Volume 2. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA. Close ).