List of Birds of Ecuador - Typical Antbirds

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 96 species which have been recorded in Ecuador.

• Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus
• Undulated Antshrike Frederickena unduligera
• Great Antshrike Taraba major
• Collared Antshrike Sakesphorus bernardi
• Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
• Chapman's Antshrike Thamnophilus zarumae
• Lined Antshrike Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus
• Cocha Antshrike Thamnophilus praecox (E)
• Castelnau's Antshrike Thamnophilus cryptoleucus
• White-shouldered Antshrike Thamnophilus aethiops
• Uniform Antshrike Thamnophilus unicolor
• Plain-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus schistaceus
• Mouse-colored Antshrike Thamnophilus murinus
• Western Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha
• Marañón Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus leucogaster
• Amazonian Antshrike Thamnophilus amazonicus
• Spot-winged Antshrike Pygiptila stellaris
• Pearly Antshrike Megastictus margaritatus
• Black Bushbird Neoctantes niger
• Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
• Spot-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus puncticeps
• White-streaked Antvireo Dysithamnus leucostictus
• Bicolored Antvireo Dysithamnus occidentalis
• Dusky-throated Antshrike Thamnomanes ardesiacus
• Cinereous Antshrike Thamnomanes caesius
• Pygmy Antwren Myrmotherula brachyura
• Moustached Antwren Myrmotherula ignota
• Pacific Antwren Myrmotherula pacifica
• Amazonian Antwren Myrmotherula multostriata
• Stripe-chested Antwren Myrmotherula longicauda
• Plain-throated Antwren Myrmotherula hauxwelli
• Checker-throated Antwren Myrmotherula fulviventris
• White-eyed Antwren Myrmotherula leucophthalma (A)
• Brown-backed Antwren Myrmotherula fjeldsaai
• Stipple-throated Antwren Myrmotherula haematonota
• Foothill Antwren Myrmotherula spodionota
• Ornate Antwren Myrmotherula ornata
• Rufous-tailed Antwren Myrmotherula erythrura
• White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris
• Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor
• Rio Suno Antwren Myrmotherula sunensis
• Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis
• Plain-winged Antwren Myrmotherula behni
• Gray Antwren Myrmotherula menetriesii
• Banded Antwren Dichrozona cincta
• Spot-tailed Antwren Herpsilochmus sticturus
• Dugand's Antwren Herpsilochmus dugandi
• Ancient Antwren Herpsilochmus gentryi
• Yellow-breasted Antwren Herpsilochmus axillaris
• Rufous-winged Antwren Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus
• Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis
• Striated Antbird Drymophila devillei
• Long-tailed Antbird Drymophila caudata
• Rufous-rumped Antwren Terenura callinota
• Chestnut-shouldered Antwren Terenura humeralis
• Ash-winged Antwren Terenura spodioptila
• Gray Antbird Cercomacra cinerascens
• Dusky Antbird Cercomacra tyrannina
• Blackish Antbird Cercomacra nigrescens
• Black Antbird Cercomacra serva
• Jet Antbird Cercomacra nigricans
• White-backed Fire-eye Pyriglena leuconota
• White-browed Antbird Myrmoborus leucophrys
• Ash-breasted Antbird Myrmoborus lugubris
• Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus
• Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis cantator
• Yellow-browed Antbird Hypocnemis hypoxantha
• Black-chinned Antbird Hypocnemoides melanopogon
• Black-and-white Antbird Myrmochanes hemileucus
• Silvered Antbird Sclateria naevia
• Slate-colored Antbird Percnostola schistacea
• Spot-winged Antbird Percnostola leucostigma
• Stub-tailed Antbird Myrmeciza berlepschi
• Chestnut-backed Antbird Myrmeciza exsul
• Esmeraldas Antbird Myrmeciza nigricauda
• Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Myrmeciza castanea
• Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Myrmeciza hemimelaena
• Plumbeous Antbird Myrmeciza hyperythra
• White-shouldered Antbird Myrmeciza melanoceps
• Sooty Antbird Myrmeciza fortis
• Immaculate Antbird Myrmeciza immaculata
• Gray-headed Antbird Myrmeciza griseiceps
• Black-throated Antbird Myrmeciza atrothorax
• White-plumed Antbird Pithys albifrons
• Bicolored Antbird Gymnopithys leucaspis
• Lunulated Antbird Gymnopithys lunulata
• Wing-banded Antbird Myrmornis torquata
• Hairy-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina melanosticta
• Spotted Antbird Hylophylax naevioides
• 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
• Ocellated Antbird Phaenostictus mcleannani