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Band-tailed Antwren

Myrmotherula urosticta

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableEndemicInvertebratesForestTiny · 9 g
Band-tailed Antwren (Myrmotherula urosticta), photo 1
Photo: Thomaz de Carvalho Callado · CC BY 4.0
Band-tailed Antwren (Myrmotherula urosticta), photo 2
Photo: (c) Thomaz de Carvalho Callado, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The band-tailed antwren is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long. It is a smallish bird with a short tail. Adult males have gray upperparts with a hidden white patch between the shoulders. Their wings are gray with white-tipped black coverts. Their tail is darker gray with the eponymous wide white band at the end. Their throat and upper breast are black; the rest of their underparts are a paler gray than the upperparts. Adult females have a paler gray face and upperparts than males with white-tipped gray wing coverts. Voice: The band-tailed antwren's song is a "short series of 4-5 very high, nasal, well-separated, sharply upslurred 'tjeuwi' notes". Its most common call is "three notes...dropping in pitch".

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When to see the Band-tailed Antwren

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Band-tailed Antwren

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil

About the Band-tailed Antwren

The band-tailed antwren is a Vulnerable species of insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to Brazil.

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Easily confused with

Ihering's AntwrenMyrmotherula iheringiIhering's antwren is 8.5 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long and weighs 7.5 to 9 g (0.26 to 0.32 oz). Yellow-throated AntwrenMyrmotherula ambiguaThe yellow-throated antwren is 8 to 8.5 cm (3.1 to 3.3 in) long and weighs 7 to 8 g (0.25 to 0.28 oz). Klages's AntwrenMyrmotherula klagesiKlages's antwren is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 7.5 to 8.5 g (0.26 to 0.30 oz).

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