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Black-spotted Bare-eye (Phlegopsis nigromaculata), family Thamnophilidae, order Passeriformes, Brazil

photograph by Andres Vasquez Noboa

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Black-spotted Bare-eye Phlegopsis nigromaculata

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The black-spotted bare-eye is an obligate ant follower that feeds on a variety of arthropods that flee foraging army ant swarms. The black-spotted bare-eye's song is "a short series of moderately long, flat, rich whistles, each slightly lower in pitch and becoming harsher in quality"; the number of notes varies. It has been written as "zhweé, zhwu, zhwu" and "HEEEW heer heer".

image by Bradley Davis

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this is the lovely but elusive East Andean antbird. it's endemic to the eastern slope of the Colombian Andes. you'd be rather hard pressed to find photos of these critters, let alone good ones - less than a hundred on eBird, and even yet, only around ten met my standards! and what's more, the better ones are all of the more conspicuous males, with their high-contrast black-and-white head feathers - females replace the white with a rusty-red, and are as such both much harder to spot and, i suspect, less interesting to birders. that last photo down there is the best photo of a female that eBird's got. yikers!!

in other news, it's an insectivore, which you might have picked up on from its hook-tipped beak; whether or not it engages in its family's namesake ant-following behavior hasn't been concretely recorded yet. it's distinguished from its local relatives by its remarkably long tail, immortalized in its scientific name Drymophila caudata. drymophila means "woods lover", while its specific name caudata means, very simply, "tail". "it likes the woods and has a tail". real groundbreaking stuff here. indeed, it keeps to the deeper parts of the woods, and its activities within remain a fairly complete mystery. at the very least, it seems to like hanging out in bamboo thickets, and doesn't mind foraging in woods where human activity's seen the trees thinned out a bit.

20 July 2026

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Subfamily Thamnophilinae antbirds

Which is the best bird?

Great antshrike

White-bearded antshrike

Ornate stipplethroat

Spot-backed antbird

Squamate antbird

Bamboo antshrike

Black-bellied antwren

White-plumed antbird

Voting ended onOct 24, 2025

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Black Bushbird Neoctantes niger

It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It favors dense undergrowth along edges, in treefalls, and along swampy streams. The black bushbird is thought to feed on insects and other arthropods.

Least Concern

image by Juan Carlos,Narváez Dobronski