Caura Antbird

The Caura antbird is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs about 39 g (1.4 oz). Males of the nominate subspecies are mostly slate gray. Their upperparts have a slight brown tinge and their wing coverts have white tips. Their iris is deep red. Females have a mostly dark gray head with paler, brown tinged, feather centers. Their upperparts and wings are dark reddish yellow-brown with wide cinnamon-rufous tips on the wing coverts. Their tail is blackish gray. Their underparts are mostly deep rufous that is browner on their flanks and crissum. Their iris is dark brown. Males of subspecies M. Voice: The Caura antbird's song is "a slow of shrill, slightly buzzy notes (strongly modulated), JEEP..JEEP, JEET, JEET-jee-jee-jit-jit-jaa-jaa, descending throughout". It also makes a "variety of snarls, jeea and jeer, and rough chattering plee-ap" calls.