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Genus: Cercomacra (7 species)


Rio de Janeiro Antbird (Cercomacra brasiliana) Male Near Threatened Range: SA: se Brazil Brazil Female is uniform olive-brown.
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza © All Rights Reserved.


Rio Branco Antbird (Cercomacra carbonaria) Critically Endangered Range: SA: n Brazil, sw Guyana Manari Ranch, Guyana
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Grey Antbird (Cercomacra cinerascens immaculata) Male Range: SA: Amazonia Les Nouragues, French Guiana
Photograph by Mathias Fernandez © All Rights Reserved.


Grey Antbird (Cercomacra cinerascens immaculata) Male Range: SA: Amazonia Les Nouragues, French Guiana
Photograph by Mathias Fernandez © All Rights Reserved.

A vocal antbird only found high in the canopy, and thus rarely seen. Note white tips to tail feathers. Female is brownish.


Bananal Antbird (Cercomacra ferdinandi) Male Near Threatened Range: SA: c Brazil Canguçu Ecological Reserve, TO, Brazil
Photograph by Marco Cruz © All Rights Reserved.


Manu Antbird (Cercomacra manu) Male Range: SA: sw, s Amazonia Villa Carmen, Pilcopata, Peru
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Manu Antbird (Cercomacra manu) Female Range: SA: sw, s Amazonia Los Amigos Biological Station, Peru
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.

A bamboo specialist. Male black, female dark grey.


Mato Grosso Antbird (Cercomacra melanaria) Male Range: SA: c Bolivia; e Bolivia, n Paraguay and w Brazil Pouso Alegre Lodge, Poconé, MT, Brazil
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte © All Rights Reserved.


Mato Grosso Antbird (Cercomacra melanaria) Female Range: SA: c Bolivia; e Bolivia, n Paraguay and w Brazil Aquidauana, MS, Brazil
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Jet Antbird (Cercomacra nigricans) Male Range: MA, SA: Panama to w Ecuador, nw Colombia and e Venezuela Reserva Ecologica Manglares-Churute, Guayas province, Ecuador
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Jet Antbird (Cercomacra nigricans) Female Range: MA, SA: Panama to w Ecuador, nw Colombia and e Venezuela Laguna Sonso, Valle de Cauca, Colombia
Photograph by Peter Hawrylyshyn © All Rights Reserved.

Often in dry or seasonally dry forests.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba