Birds of Brazil

    PASSERIFORMES: Thamnophilidae (Antbirds)  
Genus: Percnostola (1 species, 2 worldwide)


Black-headed Antbird
Black-headed Antbird (Percnostola rufifrons jensoni) Male
Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
  Note wing bars and pale eye.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Black-headed Antbird
Black-headed Antbird (Percnostola rufifrons subcristata) Male
Manaus, Brazil
  Note red eye in east Brazil and Guyanas.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Black-headed Antbird
Black-headed Antbird (Percnostola rufifrons jensoni) Female
Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Black-headed Antbird
Black-headed Antbird (Percnostola rufifrons) Female
Brazil  
   
Photograph by Philip Stouffer   © All Rights Reserved.

Note pale eye in west part of range, and red eye further east (Guyanas, east Brazil). Female jensoni race greyer and found in NE Peru (HBW) but also recorded in Leticia, Colombia and thus could be in northwest Brazil. Other females uniformly rufous. Follows ant swarms. Red-eyed races are sometimes called Hellmayr's Antbird.


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