Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul), photo 5 — Photo: (c) amantedarmanin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Santiago Ron, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul), photo 7 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul), photo 8 — Photo: (c) er-birds, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Paul Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-backed Antbird (Poliocrania exsul), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Andre Knocklein, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Chestnut-backed Antbird sounds like

Sonogram of the Chestnut-backed Antbird: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · El Oro: Reserva Buenaventura 9 km WNW Piñas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Esmeraldas: Canandé ridge trail, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Pichincha: Río Guaycuyacu, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The chestnut-backed antbird is 14 to 15 centimetres (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs about 29 grams (1.0 oz). Both sexes of all subspecies have a pale blue patch of bare skin around each eye. Adult males of the nominate subspecies P. e. exsul have a slate-black head and neck. Their upperparts are deep chestnut. Their wings and tail are deep chestnut with some black and white on the wing coverts. Their throat, breast, and belly are blackish slate and their flanks, vent area, and undertail coverts are brown. Voice: The chestnut-backed antbird's song is "an easily recognized and imitated set of 2–3 whistled notes, 'peh, peeea' or 'peh, phe, peeéa'...paraphrased as 'come...here' or 'come...right...here' ". Others have written it as "drink beer! or drink more beer!". Its calls include "rah, didit, and pew".

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When to see the Chestnut-backed Antbird

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

Where to see the Chestnut-backed Antbird

Regular range

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Panama Colombia Ecuador Nicaragua Honduras

About the Chestnut-backed Antbird

The chestnut-backed antbird is a passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

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Easily confused with

Variable AntshrikeThamnophilus caerulescensThe variable antshrike, as its common name suggests, is arguably the species of antbird with the most variable plumage.

Plain AntvireoDysithamnus mentalisThe plain antvireo is 10 to 13 cm (3.9 to 5.1 in) long and weighs 12 to 16 g (0.42 to 0.56 oz).

Black-crowned AntshrikeThamnophilus atrinuchaThe black-crowned antshrike is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 20 to 28.5 g (0.71 to 1.0 oz).

Side by side: Chestnut-backed Antbird vs Great Antshrike · Chestnut-backed Antbird vs Variable Antshrike · Chestnut-backed Antbird vs Plain Antvireo · Black-crowned Antshrike vs Chestnut-backed Antbird

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