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Order Passeriformes Family Thamnophilidae
ANTBIRDS - Antbirds
Order Passeriformes Family Thamnophilidae
The Antbirds of family Thamnophilidae occur in tropical and subtropical Central and South America. There are more than 200 species, known variously as antwrens, antbirds and antshrikes (here ordered by size with antwrens the smallest and antshrikes the largest). Other miscellaneous names for some of the species in the Thamnophilidae family are: antvireos, bare-eyes, bushbird, fire-eyes. Collective, members of the Thamnophilidae family are known as antbirds. They not closely related to the wrens, vireos or shrikes.
Most species live in forests and most feed in the understory and midstory of the forest, although a few feed in the canopy and a few on the ground. They feed on ants and other insects. They use a number of techniques to obtain prey. The majority of antbirds are arboreal, with most of those feeding in the understory, many in the middle story and some in the canopy. A few species feed in the leaf litter; The antbirds that forage arboreally show a number of techniques and specialisations. Some species perch-glean, perching on a branch watching for prey and snatching it by reaching forward, where others sally from a perch and snatch prey on the wing.
Thamnophilidae are related to antpittas of family Grallariidae and the antthrushes of family Formicariidae.
Genus Akletos - 1 species
Antbird,_Goeldi's Akletos goeldii Found: northern Bolivia, western Brazil, southeast Peru
The male Goeldi's Antbird has black plumage; blue bare skin behind eye; red eyes. Female has light rufous-brown upperparts,; gray forehead, white throat; pale underparts.
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1, 2) Female 3) Male
Genus Ammonastes - 1 species
Antbird,_Gray-bellied Ammonastes pelzelni Found: Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela
The Gray-bellied Antbird has mainly brown upperparts; whitish spotted wing-coverts. Male has black throat, breast; becoming gray over belly. Female has mainly pale underparts.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Pablo Florez, Ian_Davies 3) Nick Athanas - Columbia1) Female 2, 3) Male
Genus Aprositornis - 1 species
Antbird,_Yapacana Aprositornis disjuncta Found: isolated range at borders of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela
The Yapacana Antbird has gray upperparts; white underparts. Male has white distinct wing spots; reddish-brown on female.
Image by: 1) Marcelo_Camacho 2) Thiago_Laranjeiras 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Marcelo Camacho, Thiago Laranjeiras1, 2) Male
Genus Cercomacra
Antbird,_Bananal Cercomacra ferdinandi Found: wetlands of the central Araguaia river in Brazil
The male Bananal Antbird has mainly black plumage; white tipped wing coverts. Female has mainly gray plumage; narrow white streaks on throat, breast; wing and tail pattern same as male.
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1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Gray Cercomacra cinerascens Found: South America
The male Gray Antbird has gray plumage; light fringing on wing coverts, Female has dull brown plumage.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Adrian_Eisen_Rupp 2) Claudio_Timm - Brazil1) Female ) Male
Antbird,_Jet Cercomacra nigricans Found: northern South America
The male Jet Antbird has mainly dark plumage; bold white wing markings. Female similar to make but not as dark.
Image by: 1, 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3) Barloventomagico - Venezuela1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Manu Cercomacra manu Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
The Manu Antbird is found near stands of Guadua bamboo that occur along rivers. Male has gray plumage; white wingbars. Female has gray underparts; brownish tone to upperparts.
Image by: 1) hbw.com1) Male
Antbird,_Mato_Grosso Cercomacra melanaria Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
The male Mato Grosson Antbird has mainly black plumage; white wingbars. Female similar to make but not as dark. Female has gray-brown upperparts; paler underparts; white wingbars, eye-ring.
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1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Antbird,_Rio_Branco Cercomacra carbonaria Found: northern Brazil along Rio Branco; southwest Guyana
The male Rio Branco Antbird has mainly black plumage; white wing and tail markings. Female has gray upperparts; orange underparts.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Marcelo_Camacho 1) Female 2) Male
Antbird, Rio de Janerio Cercomacra brasiliana Found: Brazilian Atlantic Forest (central Bahia south to Rio de Janeiro)
The male Rio de Janeiro Antbird has mainly gray plumage; darker tail; white wingbar. Female has brown and tawny plumage.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Ciro_Albano1) Female 2) Male
Genus Cercomacroides also Cercomacra
Antbird,_Black Cercomacroides serva Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
The male Black Antbird has mainly black plumage; white wing bars. Female has brown upperparts; darler tail; rufous-buff underparts;
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Peter_Hawrylyshyn 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Blackish Cercomacroides nigrescens Found: Soutn America
The male Blackish Antbird has dark gray plumage; tiny white marking on wings. Female has brown upperparts; cinnamon underparts. The Riparian Antbird formerly considered subspecies of Blackish Antbird.
Image by: 1, 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Dusky Cercomacroides tyrannina Found: southeast Mexico to much of northern South America
The male Dusky Antbird has mainly blackish-gray upperparts; paler gray underparts; 2 white wingbars. Female has brown upperparts; rufous-cinnamon underparts.
Similar to: Parker's Antbird. Male Parker's Antbird has longer tail and also more olivaceous flanks than male Dusky Antbird. Female Parker's Antbird has olive-gray upperparts versus brown for Dusky Antbird.
Image by: 1) Michael_Woodruff - Ecuador 2) Nick Athanas - PanamaSimilar to: Parker's Antbird. Male Parker's Antbird has longer tail and also more olivaceous flanks than male Dusky Antbird. Female Parker's Antbird has olive-gray upperparts versus brown for Dusky Antbird.
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1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Parker's Cercomacroides parkeri Found: Columbia
Male Parker's Antbird has mainly gray plumage. Female mainly olive-gray uppperparts; rufous-cinnamon underparts.
Similar to: Dusky Antbird. Male Parker's Antbird has longer tail and also more olivaceous flanks than male Dusky Antbird. Female Parker's Antbird has olive-gray upperparts versus brown for Dusky Antbird.
Image by: 1, 3) Andres_Cuervo 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Ian_Davies Columbia Similar to: Dusky Antbird. Male Parker's Antbird has longer tail and also more olivaceous flanks than male Dusky Antbird. Female Parker's Antbird has olive-gray upperparts versus brown for Dusky Antbird.
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1) Juvenile male 2) Female 3) Male
Antbird,_Riparian Cercomacroides fuscicauda Found: s. Colombia, e. Ecuador, e. Peru, n. Bolivia and sw Amazonian Brazil.
The Riparian Antbird formerly considered subspecies of Blackish Antbird.
Image by: 1, 2) Joe_Tobias - Peru
Antbird,_Willis's Cercomacroides laeta Found: Brazil
The Willis's Antbird was formerly considered a subspecies of Dusky Antbird.
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Genus Dichrozona - 1 species
Antbird,_Banded Dichrozona cincta Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
The Banded Antwren has mainly brown upperparts; buff wingbars; pale rump-band; mainly whitish underparts with some black steaks on breast.
Image by: 1) George_Cruz
Genus Drymophila
Antbird,_Bertoni'i Drymophila rubricollis Found: northeast Argentina, southeast Brazil, eastern Paraguay
The male Bertoni's Antbird has black cap; female has rufous cap.
Similar to: Ferruginous Antbird. Ferruginous Antbird has a brighter belly then Bertoni Antbird. Their songs are different: Bertoni's has raspy song, Ferruginous has 2 note song.
Image by: 1) Hector_Bottai 2) Nick Athanas 3) Claudio TimmSimilar to: Ferruginous Antbird. Ferruginous Antbird has a brighter belly then Bertoni Antbird. Their songs are different: Bertoni's has raspy song, Ferruginous has 2 note song.
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1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird, Dusky-tailed Drymophila malura Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
The male Dusky-tailed Antbird has dark olive-gray upperparts; white streaked black head, breast. Female has cinnamon-brown upperparts; buffy-brown underparts.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Tom_Johnson 2) Dario Sanches - Brazil 3) Nick Athanas - Brazil1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_East_Andean also Long-tailed Antbird Drymophila caudata Found: Columbia
Image by: 1) Joseph_Wolf 2) Eduardo_Carrion_Letort
Antbird,_Ferruginous Drymophila ferruginea Found: Brazil
Similar to: Bertoni Antbird. Ferruginous Antbird has a brighter belly then Bertoni Antbird. Their songs are different: Bertoni's has raspy song, Ferruginous has 2 note song.
Image by: 1, 2)
Dario Sanches - Serra da Cantareira State Park, São Paulo, Brazil 3) Nick Athanas - Brazil
Antbird,_Ochre-rumped Drymophila ochropyga Found: southeast Brazil
The Ochre-rumped Antbird has black wings, tail, crown, eye-line; white supercilium; ochre rump.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Sergio_Gregorio_da_Silva 2) Nick Athanas 3) Carlos_Henrique_de_Almeida
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Rufous-tailed Drymophila genei Found: southeast Atlantic forest of Brazil
The Rufous-tailed Antbird has rufous wings, tail; black-and-white mantle, underparts; black crown, eye-line.
Image by: 1) _Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Luana_Bianquini 2) Nick Athanas - Brazil 3) Carlos_Henrique_de_Almeida - Brazil
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Santa_Marta Drymophila hellmayri Found: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia
Image by: 1) Brendan_Ryan 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Adam_Timpf
Antbird,_Scaled Drymophila squamata Found: eastern Brazil
The male Scaled Antbird has black and white plumage; black wings with whte wingbars; scaly looking underparts; barred tail. Female similar pattern to male, but mostly brown and white.
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Antbird,_Streak-headed Drymophila striaticeps Found: Bolivia to Venezuela
The male Streak-headed Antbird has black and white head, mantle, breast; streaked head; black tail. Female similar but slightly duller.
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1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Striated Drymophila devillei Found: South America
Image by: 1) Tom_Ambrose
Genus Gymnocichla - 1 species
Antbird,_Bare-crowned Gymnocichla nudiceps Found: from Belize in Central America to Columbia of South America
The male Bare-crowned Antbird has mainly black plumage; blue skin on forehead and around eyes; thin white spots on wing coverts. Female has mainly dark brown plumage; tending to olive on head; tending to red on throat, breast; blue skin on forehead and around eyes.
Image by: 1 Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Barbara_Carlson 2) Nick Athanas - Columbia1) Female 2) Male
Genus Gymnopithys
Antbird, Bicolored Gymnopithys bicolor Found: Central America, northeast South America
In Wikipedia the Bicolored Antbird and White-cheeked Antbird are both identificed via Gymnopithys leucaspis. However, Clement's Checklist has the Bicolored Antbird as Gymnopithys bicolor. The Bicolored Antbird is not found in Brazil and the White-cheeked Antbird is not found in Central America. Comparing the photos on this webpage for these two species, it appears that the White-cheeked Antbird has more white on its face than does the Bicolored Antbird.
Image by: 1, 2, 3, 4) Dick Daniels - Soberania National Park, Panama
Antbird,_Lunulated Gymnopithys lunulatus Found: Ecuator, Peru
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Oscar_Johnson in Peru, Luke Seitz in Ecuador
1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Rufous-throated Gymnopithys rufigula Found: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela.
Image by: 1) Simon_Speich 2) Dave_Curtis - Guyana 3) Joao_Quental Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Joao_Quental
Antbird,_White-cheeked Gymnopithys leucaspis Found: Brazil, Columbia, Peru
The Bicolored Antbird is not found in Brazil and the White-cheeked Antbird is not found in Central America. Comparing the photos on this webpage for these two species, it appears that the White-cheeked Antbird has more white on its face than does the Bicolored Antbird.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Anselmo d'Affonseca in Brazil
Genus Hafferia
Antbird,_Blue-lored Hafferia immaculata Found: Nicaragua, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela
The Blue-lored Antbird has blue bare skin before the eye and white behind the eye. Male has black plumage; female has mainly rufous-brown plumage; gray forehead; dark tail.
Image by: 1, 3) David_Cook - Ecuador 2) Hans_Zwitzer - Costa Rica 4) Lip_kee - Ecuador
Antbird,_Sooty Hafferia fortis Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
The male Sooty Antbird has sooty gray plumage; light blue bare orbital skin; red eyes. Female has mainly gray plumage; rufous crown, wings, tail; light blue bare orbital skin; red eyes.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Tomaz_Melo 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Zeledon's Hafferia zeledoni Found: Nicarargua, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador
The male Zeledon's Antbird has dull black plumage; pale blue orbital skin.Female has mainly warm brown plumage; pale blue orbital skin; black tail.
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1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Genus Hypocnemis
The warbling-antbirds.
Antbird,_Guianan_Warbling- Hypocnemis cantator Found: northern South America
The Guianan Warbling-Antbird is found at lower levels in humid forest in the Guianas, far eastern Venezuela (with Guyana), and north-eastern Brazil (north of the Amazon River and east of the lower Negro River and the Branco River)
Image by: 1, 2) Feroze_Omardeen - Guyana
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Antbird,_Imeri_Warbling- Hypocnemis flavescens Found: northwest Brazil, southeast Columbia, southern Venezuela
The Imeri Warbling-Antbird is very similar to Peruvean Warbling-Antbird. Even the vocalizations are similar.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Columbia 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Joao_Quental
Antbird,_Manicore_Warbling- Hypocnemis rondoni Found: Brazil
Image by: 1) Fabio_Schunck
Antbird,_Peruvean_Warbling- Hypocnemis peruviana Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru
Similar to: Imeri Warbling-Antbird. Imeri Warbling-Antbird is very similar to Peruvean Warbling-Antbird. Even the vocalizations are similar.
Similar to: Yellow-breasted Warbling-Antbird. Peruvean Warbling-Antbird has white breast; Yellow-breasted Warbling-Antbird has yellow breast.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Roger_Ahlman in EcuadorSimilar to: Yellow-breasted Warbling-Antbird. Peruvean Warbling-Antbird has white breast; Yellow-breasted Warbling-Antbird has yellow breast.
1) Female
Antbird,_Rondonia_Warbling- Hypocnemis ochrogyna Found: northeast Bolivia, Rondônia (state of Brazil)
The Rondonia Warbling-Antbird separated from Peruvian Warbling-Antbird by Rio Madeira; from Spix's Warbling-Antbird by Rio Roosevelt.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Cal_Martins, Bruno_Renno1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Spix's_Warbling- Hypocnemis striata Found: southeast Amazon of Brazil
The Spix's Warbling-Antbird's range abuts that of the Peruvian Warbling-Antbird to the west, which species occurs on the opposite bank of the Rio Madeira, and the Rondonia Warbling-Antbird to the southwest.
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1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Yellow-breasted_Warbling- Hypocnemis subflava Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
Similar to: Peruvean Warbling-Antbird.
Peruvean Warbling-Antbird has white breast; Yellow-breasted Warbling-Antbird has yellow breast.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Emerson_Kaseker1) Female 2) Male
Genus Hypocnemoides
These two species are found in swampy areas of northern South America. They are fairly small birds, with a short tail and longish bill. Their plumage is gray with areas of black and white. They forage for food near water in the understory or on the ground.
Antbird,_Black-chinned Hypocnemoides melanopogon Found: northern South America
The male Black-chinned Antbird has dark gray upperparts; black tail with white tip; white wing coverts tips; black throat. Female has white chin; whitish underparts.
Similar to: Band-tailed Antbird. There is limited overlap in their distributions with the Band-tailed Antbird occurring to the south of the Amazon River and the Black-chinned Antbird mainly found to the north.
Image by: 1, 2) Dave_Curtis - GuyanaSimilar to: Band-tailed Antbird. There is limited overlap in their distributions with the Band-tailed Antbird occurring to the south of the Amazon River and the Black-chinned Antbird mainly found to the north.
1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Band-tailed Hypocnemoides maculicauda Found:
Similar to: Black-chinned Antbird. There is limited overlap in their distributions with the Band-tailed Antbird occurring to the south of the Amazon River and the Black-chinned Antbird mainly found to the north.
Image by: 1) Hector_Bottai 2) Claudio_Timm
Genus Hylophylax
Antbird,_Dot-backed Hylophylax punctulatus Found: northern South America
Image by: 1, 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3) Hector_Bottai - Brazil
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1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Spot-backed Hylophylax naevius Found: northern South America
Image by: 1) Philip_Stouffer - Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Philip_Stouffer in Brazil 2) Nick Athanas - Columbia 3) José Loiza - Ecuador
2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Spotted Hylophylax naevioides Found: southern Central America, northwestern South America
The male Spotted Antbird has chestnut back; mainly white underparts with closely packed black spots on breast; grayish-black head. Female browner version of male,
Image by: 1, 3) Dick Daniels - Soberania National Park, Panama 2, 4) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
1,2 ) Female 3, 4) Male
Genus Myrmeciza
Antbird,_Chestnut-backed Myrmeciza exsul also Poliocrania exsul Found: from eastern Nicaragua to western Ecuador
The male Chestnut-backed Antwren has mainly chestnut upperparts; blackish head, neck, breast; bare blue skin around eyes; brown flanks, belly. Female has brownish-black head, neck; chestnut underparts.
Image by: 1) Sergey_Pisarevskiy - Costa Rica 2, 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Antbird,_Gray-headed Myrmeciza griseiceps also Ampelornis griseiceps also Found: Ecuador, Peru
The male Gray-headed Antbird has dark gray head, nape, underparts; olive mantle. Female has lighter gray and more olive.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Daniel_Lane 2, 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_White-bellied Myrmeciza longipes Found: Panama, northern South America
The male White-bellied Antbird has warm rufous upperparts; gray neck sides, supercilium; black face, throat, upper-breast whitish rest underparts. Female has rufous upperparts; gray crown; rufous or buff throat, breast.
Image by: 1) Alejandro_Tamayo 2) Nick Athanas - Panama 3) Barloventomagico - Venezuela1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_White-shouldered Myrmeciza melanoceps Akletos melanoceps Found: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
The male White-shouldered Antbird has mainly black plumage; white shoulder patch. Female has mainly cinnamon-tawny plumage; black head, hood.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Roger_Ahlman1) Female 2) Male
Genus Myrmelastes
Antbird,_Caura Myrmelastes caurensis Found: southern Venezuela, adjacent Brazil
Similar to: Spot-winged Antbird. The Caura Antbird has gray legs; Spot-winged Antbird has pink legs.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Octavio_Campos_Salles 2) David_Ascanio1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Humaita Myrmelastes humaythae Found: southwest Amazon in Brazil and Bolivia
The male Humaita Antbird has mainly gray plumage; olive-brown tinged mantle, crown; white spots on wing coverts. Previouly subspecies of Spot-winged Antbird.
Similar to: Spot-winged Antbird. Male Humaita Antbird lighter gray than male Spot-winged Antbird. Female Humaita has brown head versus gray of Spot-winged.
Image by: 1, 2) Hector_Bottai - BrazilSimilar to: Spot-winged Antbird. Male Humaita Antbird lighter gray than male Spot-winged Antbird. Female Humaita has brown head versus gray of Spot-winged.
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Antbird,_Plumbeous Myrmelastes hyperythrus Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
The male Plumbeous Antbird has mainly dark gray plumage; white dots on wing coverts; pale blue orbital skin. Female has lighter gray upperparts; white dots on wing coverts; bright rufous underparts.
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Antbird,_Roriaman Myrmelastes saturatus Found: southeast Venezuela ( around Mount Roraima), west-central Guyana
Tme male Roriaman Antbird has dark gray plumage; darker wings with white spots. Female has brown upperparts; gray face; dark wings with pale spots; rufous underparts. Formerly considered a subspecies of Spot-winged Antbird.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Daniel_Hinckley in Venezuela
Antbird,_Rufous-faced Myrmelastes rufifacies Found: South America
The Rufous-faced Antbird was previously considered a subspecies of the Spot-winged Antbird.
Image by: 1) Ricardo_Gentil 2) Bruno_Renno Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Adrian_Eisen_Rupp. Bruno Rennó 
Antbird,_Slate-colored Myrmelastes schistaceus Found: western Brazil, southern Columbia, northeast Peru
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Roger_Ahlman
1) Male
Antbird,_Spot-winged Myrmelastes leucostigma Found: Amazon region of South America
The male Spot-winged Antbird has mainly dark gray plumage; white spots on wing coverts; pink legs. Female has mainly orange-rufous underparts; browner upperparts; gray face; white spots on wing covert.
Similar to: Caura Antbird. The Caura Antbird has gray legs; Spot-winged Antbird has pink legs.
Similar to: Humaita Antbird. Male Humaita Antbird lighter gray than male Spot-winged Antbird. Female Humaita has brown head versus gray of Spot-winged.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2) Jose Loiza - Ecuador 3) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Daniel_HinckleySimilar to: Caura Antbird. The Caura Antbird has gray legs; Spot-winged Antbird has pink legs.
Similar to: Humaita Antbird. Male Humaita Antbird lighter gray than male Spot-winged Antbird. Female Humaita has brown head versus gray of Spot-winged.
Genus Myrmoborus
Antbird,_Ash-breasted Myrmoborus lugubris Found: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (near Amazon River)
The male Ash-breasted Antbird has gray upperparts; black face, throat; red eyes; grayish-white underparts. Female has warm buffy-brown upperparts; sometimes with dark mask; white throat; whitish or grayish underparts.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Brazil 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online Roger_Ahlman1, 2) Female 3) Male
Antbird,_Black-faced Myrmoborus myotherinus Found: middle South America
The male Black-faced Antbird has blue-gray upperparts; slightly darker wings, tail; black face, throat. Female has mainly olive-brown upperparts; light buff underparts.
Image by: 1) Jose_Loiza - Ecuador 2) Joao_Quental - Brazil 3) Marcel Holyoak - Peru
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_White-browed Myrmoborus leucophrys Found: northern South America
The male White-browed Antbird has mainly dark gray plumage; black throat; white crown; red eyes. Female has mainly warm brown upperparts; pale spots on wing coverts; broad buffy supercilium; blackish mask.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Joaquín_Ugarte, Bradley Hacker 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Black-tailed Myrmoborus melanurus Found: Peru
The male Black-tailed Antbird has mainly blackish plumage, darkest on head and neck. Female has brown upperparts (including tail); whitish underparts with brown breast-band.
Image by: 1, 2) Marcel_Holyoak - Peru1) Female 2) Male
Genus Myrmochanes - 1 species
Antbird,_Black-and-white Myrmochanes hemileucus Found: western Brazil, eastern Ecuador and Peru, northern Bolivia
The Black-and-white Anftbird has black upperparts; white underparts, wingbars.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Roger_Ahlman1) Female 2) Male
Genus Myrmoderus
Antbird,_Ferruginous-backed Myrmoderus ferrugineus Found: Guyanas and the northern Amazon Basin
The Ferruginous-backed Antbird has mainly warm brown upperparts; black wing coverts bordered spots; pale blue orbital patch; black face; buffy ventral region. Male has black chin; female white.
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1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_Scalloped Myrmoderus ruficauda Found: near east coast Brazil
Image by: 1, 2) Bossilima 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Bossilima
1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Squamate Myrmoderus squamosus Found: Brazil
The Squamate Antbird has white supercilium; black face, throat; black wing coverts with two white wingbars; black and white scaly breast. Female upperparts similar; dark face; faint pale superciliump; whitish throat; whitish underparts with some scalloping.
Similar to: White-bibbed Antbird. White-bibbed Antbird range is north of Squamate's range. Male Squamate Antbird has more black scalloping on breast than the Squamate Antbird.
Image by: 1) Claudio_Timm 2) Nick Athanas - Brazil 3) Francesco_VeronesiSimilar to: White-bibbed Antbird. White-bibbed Antbird range is north of Squamate's range. Male Squamate Antbird has more black scalloping on breast than the Squamate Antbird.
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1) Female 2, 3) Male
Antbird,_White-bibbed Myrmoderus loricatus Found: Brazil
The male White-bibbed Antbird has brown upperparts, crown; black face, chin; white supercilium; white underparts with black scallop breast marking. Female similar to male but no black scalloping on breasts.
Similar to: Squamate Antbird. White-bibbed Antbird range is north of Squamate's range. Male Squamate Antbird has more black scalloping on breast than the Squamate Antbird.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Brazil Claudio_Timm Similar to: Squamate Antbird. White-bibbed Antbird range is north of Squamate's range. Male Squamate Antbird has more black scalloping on breast than the Squamate Antbird.
1, 2) Male
Genus Myrmophylax - 1 species
Antbird,_Black-throated Myrmophylax atrothorax Found: central South America
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Kurazo_Okada 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3) Barloventomagico - Venezuela
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Genus Myrmornis - 1 species
Antbird,_Wing-banded Myrmornis torquata Found: Nicaragua, Panama, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, and more
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Maria_Ogrzewalska in Brazil 2) Isaac_Pizarro - Panama
1) Female 2) Male
Genus Myrmorchilus - 1 species
Antbird,_Striped-back Myrmorchilus strigilatus Found: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
The Striped-back Antbird has brown upperparts with streaks; white wingbar; white underparts with brown flanks; male has black bib.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Brazil 2) Joao_Quental 3) Hector_Bottai - Brazil
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Genus Percnostola
Antbird,_Allpahuayo Percnostola arenarum Found: northern Peru
The male Allpahuayo Antbird has mainly slate gray plumage; darker wings with white fringing to coverts; black throat. Female has gray upperparts; whitish throat; tawny breast, wingbars; white lower belly.
Similar to: Black-headed Antbird. Male Black-headed antbird has darker crown than male Allphhuayo Antbird. Female Black-headed has some rufous on crown, female Allpahuayo does not.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Christophe_GouraudSimilar to: Black-headed Antbird. Male Black-headed antbird has darker crown than male Allphhuayo Antbird. Female Black-headed has some rufous on crown, female Allpahuayo does not.
1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_White-lined Percnostola lophotes Found: northern Bolivia, southwest Brazil, southeast Peru
The male White-lined Antbird has mainly slate-gray plumage; white-lined wing-coverts. Female has rusty-brown upperparts; whitish underparts. Both sexes raise a crest when excited.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Robin Oxley Hector_Bottai - Brazil_lophotes_-_White-lined_antbird.jpg){kind=link}
1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Black-headed Percnostola rufifrons Found: Amazon region of South America
The male Black-headed Antbird has mainly dark gray plumage; black crown, throat; white wingbars. Female has pale orange-rufous underparts; darker upperparts; orange wingbars. Both have red eyes.
Similar to: Allphhuayo Antbird. Male Black-headed antbird has darker crown than male Allphhuayo Antbird. Female Black-headed has some rufous on crown, female Allpahuayo does not.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Columbia 2, 3) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Luiz_Matos, Kester Clarke 4) Hector BottaiSimilar to: Allphhuayo Antbird. Male Black-headed antbird has darker crown than male Allphhuayo Antbird. Female Black-headed has some rufous on crown, female Allpahuayo does not.
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1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Genus Pithys
Antbird,_White-masked Pithys castaneus Found: Peru
The White-masked Antbird has mainly rufous plumage; black head; white mask.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Susana_Cubas_Poclin
Antbird,_White-plumed Pithys albifrons Found: Amazon region of South America
The White-plumed Antbird has gray upperparts; gray head; elegant white plumes in facial region; , chestnut neck, underparts; orange feet.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Genus Phaenostictus - 1 species
Antbird, Ocellated Phaenostictus mcleannani Found: Central America, South America
The Ocellated Antbird has gray crown; black throat; buff upper-breast with large black spots over rest of underparts and upperparts; bright blue orbital skin.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Dick Daniels - Soberania National Park, Panama 4, 5, 6) Nick Athanas - Panama
Genus Rhegmatorhina
Antbird,_Bare-eyed Rhegmatorhina gymnops Found: Brazil
The male Bare-eyed Antbird has brown upperparst, belly; black head, nape, breast; bold bare white eye-ring. Female replaces black with dark brown.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Brazil1) Male
Antbird,_Chestnut-crested Rhegmatorhina cristata Found: southeast Columbia, northwest Brazil
The Chestnut-crested Antbird has brown and rufous plumage; black face, throat; bluish-gray orbital skin.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Colubmia
Antbird,_Hairy-crested Rhegmatorhina melanosticta Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
The male Hairy-crested Antbird has mainly brown plumage; black face; buish-white orbital skin; pale bushy gray or brown crest. Female similar except with black spots on upperparts.
Image by: 1) Anselmo_d’Affonseca Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Anselmo d'Affonseca 2) Francisco_Enríquez
1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Harlequin Rhegmatorhina berlepschi Found: Brazil
The Harlequin Antbird has black face, throat; rufous throat; pale green orbital skin.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Bruno_Renno1) Male
Antbird,_White-breasted Rhegmatorhina hoffmannsi Found: Brazil
The male White-breasted Antbird has brown upperparts; black crown, nape; white face, throat, breast; grayish rest of underparts. Female has brown and black vermiculated mantle and wing coverts; brown crown; pale brown underparts vermiculated with black.
Image by: 1) Dirceu_Martins
Genus Rhopornis - 1 species
Antbird,_Slender Rhopornis ardesiacus Found: Bahia and Minas Gerais in Brazil
The Slender Antbird has mainly gray plumage; black and white wing markings; red eyes. Male has black throat. Female has white throat, brown crown.
Image by: 1) Arthur_Grosset 2) Joao_Quental 3) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Joao_de_Souza
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Genus Sciaphylax
Antbird,_Chestnut-tailed also Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Sciaphylax hemimelaena Found: southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia
The Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Zimmer's Antbird) and the Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Chestnut-tailed Antbird) differ mainly vocally. Zimmer's Antbird has great contrast between the black breast and white belly. The Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird is more common.
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Joaquín_Ugarte, Glenn Bartley 1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Zimmer's also Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Sciaphylax castanea Found: eastern Euador, northeast Peru
The Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Zimmer's Antbird) and the Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird (Chestnut-tailed Antbird) differ mainly vocally. Zimmer's Antbird has great contrast between the black breast and white belly. The Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird is more common.
Image by: 1) Cristian Alfonso Gallego Carmona - Peru 2) Marcell_Claassen
Genus Sclateria - 1 species
Antbird,_Silvered Sclateria naevia Found: South America
The male Silvered Antbird has dark gray upperparts; dusky wings with 2 rows of white spots; gray and white streaked underparts. Female has dark brown upperparts; buff wing spots. Both have long thin bills.
Image by: 1) Rwheimle 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - graichen_and_recer 3) Nick Athanas - Venezuela 4) Claudio_Timm - Brazil
2) Female 3, 4) Male
Genus Sipia
Antbird,_Dull-mantled Sipia laemosticta Found: Costa Rica to northwest Venezuela
The male Dull-mantled Antbird has mainly brown upperparts; white dots on wing coverts; dark gray head; red eyes; black throat; dark gray underparts. Female similar; black on throat placed by black and white stripes.
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Antbird,_Esmeraldas Sipia nigricauda Found: Pacific slope of northwestern South America
The male Esmeraldas Antbird has mainly dark gray plumage; browner over rump, wing; red eyes. Female has largely brown upperparts; ochre-brown vental region; red eyes.
Image by: 1) Arley_Vargas 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador2) Male
Antbird,_Magdalena Sipia palliata Found: Columbia, Venezuela
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Columbia
1) Male
Antbird,_Stub-tailed Sipia berlepschi Found: Columbia, Ecuador
The male Stub-tailed Antbird has mainly black plumage; white patch between shoulders (usually concealed); deep red eyes. Female similar to male, but with white spots on wings and underparts.
Image by: 1, 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2, 4) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Alonso_Quevedo_Gil, Roger Ahlman1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Genus Terenura
Antbird,_Orange-bellied Terenura sicki Found: Brazil
The male Orange-bellied Antbird has mainly black upperparts; white-streaked head, nape, mantle; blackish wings with white wing-bars; white underparts with black stripe flanks. Female has orange belly.
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Ciro_Alban Ciro_Albano1) Female 2) Male
Antbird,_Streak-capped Terenura maculata Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
The Streak-capped Antbird has reddish-brown back; black-and-white streaked head; white throat with black streaks; yellow lower-breast, belly.
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Genus Willisornis
Antbird,_Common_Scale-backed Willisornis poecilinotus Found: Amazon basin of South America
Image by: 1) Jose_Loiza - Ecuador 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3) Dick Daniels - Ecuador
Antbird,_Xingu_Scale-backed Willisornis vidua Found: South America
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Luiz_Matos in Brazil 2) Nick Athanas - Brazil
1) Female 2) Male
