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This large and striking terrestrial antbird is apparently on the decline in central Panama; Carlos Bethancourt notes
that he used to have reliable spots for this species along Pipeline Road, but hasn't found them fruitful in recent years.
Perhaps a positive recent development is the good fortune of successive Field Guides Inc. tours in February of 2006, the first of which heard
Wing-banded Antbird on Pipeline Road, the second of which actaully saw one. As a whole this species is represented by an isloated population
in Nicaragua, with a large gap until central Panama, and then sporadically into Amazonian Brazil. If the Nicaraguan population is not genetically isolated
then there must be some transitional population between there and Panama, so this species should be looked for anywhere.
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