Birds of Ecuador - Epinecrophylla


Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla erythrura erythrura) Male Yasuní Research Station, Orellana province, Ecuador
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.

Very similar to Rufous-backed Stipplethroat, but note throat plain or only slightly marked. Female overall brown with black on primary wing coverts.


Checker-throated Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla fulviventris) Male Rio Silanche Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Checker-throated Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla fulviventris) Female Soberania National Park, Panama
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Male from front.


Rufous-backed Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla haematonota haematonota) Male Los Amigos Biological Station, Peru
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.

This species is a remerge of the former Fulvous-throated Antwren, and includes the Yasuni Antwren. Note white throat stippled with black on male only. First called Stipple-throated Antwren.


Ornate Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla ornata) Boca Pariamanu, Peru
Photograph by Isabel Apkarian © All Rights Reserved.


Foothill Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla spodionota spodionota) Male Reserva Natural La Isla Escondida, Orito, Putumayo, Colombia On male note greyish brown colors and white streaked throat.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Foothill Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla spodionota spodionota) Female Mocoa, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Unlike some antwrens in this genus, stays close to the ground. Illustrated with light-colored eye, but it is hard to see that.