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Antbird from lowland jungles of extreme eastern Panama
An antbird from the lowland jungles of extreme eastern Panama. Researchers found that antbirds follow army ants as they march through leaf litter, consuming every insect, spider and lizard in their path. The insects that escape the ants by flight, like grasshoppers, katydids and crickets, are quickly devoured by the birds trailing behind the swarm.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DEB 0332093.]
Learn more in the NSF Research News story Birds follow army ants to find prey. (Date of Image: April 2004) (Image added to Multimedia Gallery: Jan. 8, 2008)
Credit: Robb Brumfield, Louisiana State University
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