From Wiki:
The great antshrike inhabits a wide range of semi-humid to humid tropical zone landscapes, favoring in most of them areas of dense understorey vegetation. The landscapes include gallery forest, savanna woodlands, younger secondary forest, the edges and clearings of evergreen forest, river islands, and locally drier but not arid areas. It is often associated with stands of bamboo. he great antshrike feeds on a wide variety of largish insects and other arthropods, small molluscs, small vertebrates including mammals, lizards, and minnows, and a small amount of vegetable matter. Its diet appears to vary considerably across its range. It forages singly or in pairs, almost always within about 5 m (15 ft) of the ground in heavy cover. It hops sluggishly from branch to branch, gleaning prey from leaves, stems, and branches by reaching and sometimes jumping from a perch. It often drops to the ground to seize prey. In the Brazilian Pantanal it has been observed feeding on aquatic prey while standing on water hyacinths. It sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks (though almost never does so in Venezuela) and occasionally follows army ant swarms.
These shots were taken from a bout on the Cuiaba river, and are not typical- it is a shy species hidden most of the time in dense vegetation.
Taken on a Awesome trip with Juan Carlos Vindas (Neotropic photo tours)
www.neotropicphototours.com 