About the Black-faced Antbird
The black-faced antbird is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
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The black-faced antbird is 12 to 13.5 cm (4.7 to 5.3 in) long and weighs 16 to 22 g (0.56 to 0.78 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies M. m. myotherinus have a dark bluish gray crown, nape, and upperparts with a small white patch between their scapulars. Their wings and tail are slightly darker gray with white tips on the wing coverts. Their face is mostly black with a pale supercilium. Their throat is black and the rest of their underparts pale gray with slightly darker sides, flanks, and crissum. Adult females have a dark grayish olive-brown crown, nape, and upperparts. Voice: The song of the nominate black-faced antbird is "a countable series...of evenly spaced, somewhat unclear (frequency-modulated) notes, pitch and intensity rising initially, falling terminally, notes become longer throughout" that has been written as "zree-zree-zree-zrut-zrut".
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What the Black-faced Antbird sounds like
Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
White-browed AntbirdMyrmoborus leucophrysThe white-browed antbird is 12 to 13.5 cm (4.7 to 5.3 in) long and weighs 18 to 22 g (0.63 to 0.78 oz).
Ash-breasted AntbirdMyrmoborus lugubrisThe ash-breasted antbird is 12 to 13.5 cm (4.7 to 5.3 in) long and weighs 20 to 23 g (0.71 to 0.81 oz).
Black-tailed AntbirdMyrmoborus melanurusThe black-tailed antbird is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs an average of about 18 g (0.63 oz).
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