Typical Antbirds
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Thamnophilidae
The antbirds are a large family of small passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America. They are forest birds, and tend to feed on insects at or near the ground. A sizable minority of them specialize in following columns of army ants to eat the small invertebrates that leave hiding to flee the ants.Many species lack bright colour; brown, black and white being the dominant tones. There are 79 species which have been recorded in Venezuela.
- Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus
- Black-throated Antshrike Frederickena viridis
- Undulated Antshrike Frederickena unduligera
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
- Black-crested Antshrike Sakesphorus canadensis
- Black-backed Antshrike Sakesphorus melanonotus
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus
- Lined Antshrike Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus
- Blackish-gray Antshrike Thamnophilus nigrocinereus
- White-shouldered Antshrike Thamnophilus aethiops
- Mouse-colored Antshrike Thamnophilus murinus
- Western Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha
- Northern Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus punctatus
- Streak-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus insignis
- Amazonian Antshrike Thamnophilus amazonicus
- Spot-winged Antshrike Pygiptila stellaris
- Pearly Antshrike Megastictus margaritatus
- Black Bushbird Neoctantes niger
- Recurve-billed Bushbird Clytoctantes alixii
- Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
- Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
- White-streaked Antvireo Dysithamnus leucostictus
- Dusky-throated Antshrike Thamnomanes ardesiacus
- Cinereous Antshrike Thamnomanes caesius
- Pygmy Antwren Myrmotherula brachyura
- Moustached Antwren Myrmotherula ignota
- Yellow-throated Antwren Myrmotherula ambigua
- Cherrie's Antwren Myrmotherula cherriei
- Amazonian Antwren Myrmotherula multostriata
- Guianan Antwren Myrmotherula surinamensis
- Rufous-bellied Antwren Myrmotherula guttata
- Brown-bellied Antwren Myrmotherula gutturalis
- Stipple-throated Antwren Myrmotherula haematonota
- Rufous-tailed Antwren Myrmotherula erythrura
- White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris
- Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor
- Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis
- Plain-winged Antwren Myrmotherula behni
- Gray Antwren Myrmotherula menetriesii
- Banded Antwren Dichrozona cincta
- Spot-tailed Antwren Herpsilochmus sticturus
- Todd's Antwren Herpsilochmus stictocephalus
- Spot-backed Antwren Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus
- Roraiman Antwren Herpsilochmus roraimae
- Rufous-winged Antwren Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus
- White-fringed Antwren Formicivora grisea
- Long-tailed Antbird Drymophila caudata
- Rufous-rumped Antwren Terenura callinota
- Ash-winged Antwren Terenura spodioptila
- Gray Antbird Cercomacra cinerascens
- Dusky Antbird Cercomacra tyrannina
- Jet Antbird Cercomacra nigricans
- White-browed Antbird Myrmoborus leucophrys
- Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus
- Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis cantator
- Black-chinned Antbird Hypocnemoides melanopogon
- Bare-crowned Antbird Gymnocichla nudiceps
- Silvered Antbird Sclateria naevia
- Black-headed Antbird Percnostola rufifrons
- Slate-colored Antbird Percnostola schistacea
- Spot-winged Antbird Percnostola leucostigma
- Roraiman Antbird Percnostola saturata
- Caura Antbird Percnostola caurensis
- White-bellied Antbird Myrmeciza longipes
- Ferruginous-backed Antbird Myrmeciza ferruginea
- Dull-mantled Antbird Myrmeciza laemosticta
- Yapacana Antbird Myrmeciza disjuncta
- Gray-bellied Antbird Myrmeciza pelzelni
- Immaculate Antbird Myrmeciza immaculata
- Black-throated Antbird Myrmeciza atrothorax
- White-plumed Antbird Pithys albifrons
- Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula
- Bicolored Antbird Gymnopithys leucaspis
- Wing-banded Antbird Myrmornis torquata
- Spot-backed Antbird Hylophylax naevia
- Dot-backed Antbird Hylophylax punctulata
- Scale-backed Antbird Hylophylax poecilinota
- Reddish-winged Bare-eye Phlegopsis erythroptera
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