Editing Gnateater (section)

==Behaviour and ecology==
===Food and feeding===
Gnateaters are [[insectivorous]] as the group name implies. The members of the genus ''Conopophaga'' feed mostly using two methods; one is to perch above the forest floor until prey is spotted, then lunge down to the ground to snatch it; having landed on the ground to snatch a prey item it will not remain on the forest floor for more than a couple of seconds. The second method used is to [[gleaning (birds)|glean]] insects directly from the foliage, trunks, and branches of low vegetation. Typical prey items include [[spider]]s, [[caterpillar]]s, insect larvae, [[grasshopper]]s and [[beetle]]s; individuals of some species have also been observed eating fruit and in one case a [[frog]]. Very little information is available on the diet of the two ''Pittasoma'', but they are presumably also [[insectivorous]].{{sfn|Whitney|2003|p=740}}