Great Antshrike
Taraba major - Grand Batara
Identification
Subspecific information 10 subspecies
- Taraba major major (e Bolivia, Paraguay, s Brazil and n Argentina)
- Taraba major melanocrissus (se Mexico to w Panama)
- Taraba major obscurus (w Costa Rica to n Colombia)
- Taraba major transandeanus (sw Colombia, w Ecuador and nw Peru)
- Taraba major granadensis (n and c Colombia and nw Venezuela)
- Taraba major semifasciatus (e Colombia, s and ne Venezuela, the Guianas and ne and c Brazil)
- Taraba major duidae (Mt. Duida. se Venezuela.)
- Taraba major melanurus (w Amazonia)
- Taraba major borbae (wc Brazil s of the Amazon)
- Taraba major stagurus (e and ne Brazil)
Foreign names
- Grand Batara,
- Batará mayor,
- choró-boi,
- Weißbrust-Ameisenwürger,
- búbos hangyászgébics,
- Grote Mierklauwier,
- Averla formichiera maggiore,
- större myrtörnskata,
- Hvitbrystmaurvarsler,
- batara veľká,
- mravenčík velký,
- Broget Myretornskade,
- lepinkäismuura,
- batarà encaputxat,
- taraba (południowa),
- Тараба,
- オオアリモズ,
- 大蚁鵙,
- större myrtörnskata,
- 大蟻鵙,
Habitat
Threats - protection
IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
in the Wild
Near
threatened
threatened
Not
evaluated
evaluated
EX
EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC
NE
Sources of information
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Vol 16, Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, David Christie
- Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- ARKive, Christopher Parsons
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- HBW Alive,
- Wikipedia (English version),
- IOC World Bird List (v14.2), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.
Other sources of interest
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