Band-tailed Antbird

The band-tailed antbird is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 11.5 to 14.5 g (0.41 to 0.51 oz). Adult males have leaden gray upperparts with a large but usually hidden white patch between their scapulars. Their tail is slate gray with wide white feather tips. Their flight feathers are leaden gray with lighter gray edges and their wing coverts are black with gray and white edges. Their throat is black. Their underparts are mostly a paler gray than their upperparts and with a white belly. Adult females have the same leaden upperparts as males. Voice: One description of the band-tailed antbird's song is "an accelerating series of rising, modulated whistles followed by an abruptly decelerating series of rising burry note: hew hew-hu-hu'huHU' DJZE'DJZEE-djzwee djzww djzwee?". Another description is a "strong, accelerating series of loud raspy notes, rising in strength and pitch to a sharp rattle, then falling and decelerating".