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.
- Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus
- Bamboo Antshrike Cymbilaimus sanctaemariae
- Giant Antshrike Batara cinerea
- Undulated Antshrike Frederickena unduligera
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Chestnut-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus palliatus
- Blackish-gray Antshrike Thamnophilus nigrocinereus
- White-shouldered Antshrike Thamnophilus aethiops
- Upland Antshrike Thamnophilus aroyae
- Plain-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus schistaceus
- Mouse-colored Antshrike Thamnophilus murinus
- Natterer's Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus stictocephalus
- Bolivian Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus
- Amazonian Antshrike Thamnophilus amazonicus
- Variable Antshrike Thamnophilus caerulescens
- Rufous-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus torquatus
- Rufous-capped Antshrike Thamnophilus ruficapillus
- Spot-winged Antshrike Pygiptila stellaris
- Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
- Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
- Saturnine Antshrike Thamnomanes saturninus
- Dusky-throated Antshrike Thamnomanes ardesiacus
- Cinereous Antshrike Thamnomanes caesius
- Bluish-slate Antshrike Thamnomanes schistogynus
- Pygmy Antwren Myrmotherula brachyura
- Sclater's Antwren Myrmotherula sclateri
- Amazonian Antwren Myrmotherula multostriata
- Stripe-chested Antwren Myrmotherula longicauda
- Plain-throated Antwren Myrmotherula hauxwelli
- White-eyed Antwren Myrmotherula leucophthalma
- Stipple-throated Antwren Myrmotherula haematonota
- Ornate Antwren Myrmotherula ornata
- Rufous-tailed Antwren Myrmotherula erythrura
- White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris
- Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis
- Ihering's Antwren Myrmotherula iheringi
- Ashy Antwren Myrmotherula grisea (E)
- Gray Antwren Myrmotherula menetriesii
- Leaden Antwren Myrmotherula assimilis
- Banded Antwren Dichrozona cincta
- Stripe-backed Antbird Myrmorchilus strigilatus
- Black-capped Antwren Herpsilochmus atricapillus
- Large-billed Antwren Herpsilochmus longirostris
- Rufous-winged Antwren Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus
- Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis
- White-fringed Antwren Formicivora grisea
- Black-bellied Antwren Formicivora melanogaster
- Rusty-backed Antwren Formicivora rufa
- Striated Antbird Drymophila devillei
- Long-tailed Antbird Drymophila caudata
- Chestnut-shouldered Antwren Terenura humeralis
- Yellow-rumped Antwren Terenura sharpei
- Gray Antbird Cercomacra cinerascens
- Blackish Antbird Cercomacra nigrescens
- Black Antbird Cercomacra serva
- Mato Grosso Antbird Cercomacra melanaria
- Manu Antbird Cercomacra manu
- White-backed Fire-eye Pyriglena leuconota
- White-browed Antbird Myrmoborus leucophrys
- Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus
- Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis cantator
- Band-tailed Antbird Hypocnemoides maculicauda
- Black-and-white Antbird Myrmochanes hemileucus
- Silvered Antbird Sclateria naevia
- Spot-winged Antbird Percnostola leucostigma
- White-lined Antbird Percnostola lophotes
- Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Myrmeciza hemimelaena
- Plumbeous Antbird Myrmeciza hyperythra
- Goeldi's Antbird Myrmeciza goeldii
- Sooty Antbird Myrmeciza fortis
- Black-throated Antbird Myrmeciza atrothorax
- White-throated Antbird Gymnopithys salvini
- Hairy-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina melanosticta
- Spot-backed Antbird Hylophylax naevia
- Dot-backed Antbird Hylophylax punctulata
- Scale-backed Antbird Hylophylax poecilinota
- Black-spotted Bare-eye Phlegopsis nigromaculata
- Reddish-winged Bare-eye Phlegopsis erythroptera
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