Birds of the World


Fringe-backed Fire-eye (Pyriglena atra) Endangered Range: SA: e Brazil Espirito Santo, Brazil
Photograph by Ciro Albano - NE Brazil Birding © All Rights Reserved.


East Amazonian Fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota pernambucensis) Male Range: SA: e Brazil Brazil
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza © All Rights Reserved.


East Amazonian Fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota) Female Range: SA: e Brazil ESEC Murici, Brazil
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


White-shouldered Fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera) Male Range: SA: e Paraguay, ne Argentina and se Brazil Parque Estadual da Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Photograph by Dario Sanches Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


White-shouldered Fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera) Female Range: SA: e Paraguay, ne Argentina and se Brazil Rio Piracicaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza © All Rights Reserved.


Western Fire-eye (Pyriglena maura castanoptera) Male Range: SA: w Ecuador, Peru, sc Colombia, e, c Bolivia and sw Brazil San Augustin, Huila, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Western Fire-eye (Pyriglena maura maura) Female Range: SA: w Ecuador, Peru, sc Colombia, e, c Bolivia and sw Brazil Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso, Brazil An all brown female with white brow is found from the southeast Peru foothills through Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Western Fire-eye (Pyriglena maura castanoptera) Female Range: SA: w Ecuador, Peru, sc Colombia, e, c Bolivia and sw Brazil Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
Photograph by Matt Grube © All Rights Reserved.

Note white back on all-black male, present on a number of species of antbirds, but sometimes hard to see or not present. Split from White-backed Fire-eye in 2020, but even this new speies has females that are all brown (Ecuador Pacific), or rufous with black head (Peru), or rufous wings with black head and body (East Andean slope, Colombia to north Peru).

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Tapajos Fire-eye (Pyriglena similis) Range: SA: sc Amazonian Brazil