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Chestnut-shouldered Antwren

Euchrepomis humeralis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 7 g

What the Chestnut-shouldered Antwren sounds like

Sonogram of the Chestnut-shouldered Antwren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, song, calls · Pastaza: Churunalpi, 5 km N Canelos, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Chestnut-shouldered Antwren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Orellana: 'Maxus' road km 37 (27 km SSE Pompeya), Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Chestnut-shouldered Antwren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Pastaza: Churunalpi, 5 km N Canelos, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The chestnut-shouldered antwren is 9.5 to 11 cm (3.7 to 4.3 in) long and weighs about 7 to 8 g (0.25 to 0.28 oz). The sexes have different plumage. Adult males have a whitish supercilium and a thin dark line through the eye on an otherwise pale gray face. Their crown and nape are black, their back greenish olive, their rump rufous-chestnut, and their uppertail coverts and tail grayish olive. Voice: The chestnut-shouldered antwren's song is "very high, thin, slightly descending, gradually accelerating to a 'fuh-fuh-weet-weet-d-rrr' rattle".

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When to see the Chestnut-shouldered Antwren

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chestnut-shouldered Antwren

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Ecuador Brazil Bolivia

About the Chestnut-shouldered Antwren

The chestnut-shouldered antwren is a species of bird in subfamily Euchrepomidinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Yellow-rumped Antwren (Euchrepomis sharpei) Yellow-rumped AntwrenEuchrepomis sharpeiThe yellow-rumped antwren is 9.5 to 10.5 cm (3.7 to 4.1 in) long and weighs about 7 to 8 g (0.25 to 0.28 oz). Ash-winged AntwrenEuchrepomis spodioptilaThe ash-winged antwren is 9.5 to 11 cm (3.7 to 4.3 in) long and weighs about 6.5 to 7.5 g (0.23 to 0.26 oz). Rufous-rumped Antwren (Euchrepomis callinota) Rufous-rumped AntwrenEuchrepomis callinotaThe rufous-rumped antwren is 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) long and weighs about 7 to 9.5 g (0.25 to 0.34 oz).

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