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The plumbeous antvireo is about 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long. Adult males have a dark gray head, upperparts, and tail with a hidden white patch between the scapulars. Their wings are black with white tips and edges on the coverts. Their underparts are a darker blackish gray than the upperparts. Adult females have an olive-brown head and upperparts with buff-white spots on the wing coverts. Their throat is very pale gray, their breast olive-brown, and their belly and crissum ochraceous. Voice: The plumbeous antvireo's song is a "slow series of 6-8 evenly spaced, rising and falling, sad-sounding notes".
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When to see the Plumbeous Antvireo
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Plumbeous Antvireo
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.
About the Plumbeous Antvireo
The plumbeous antvireo is a Vulnerable species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to Brazil.
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Easily confused with
Bicolored AntvireoDysithamnus occidentalisThe bicolored antvireo is about 13 to 13.5 cm (5.1 to 5.3 in) long.
Rufous-backed AntvireoDysithamnus xanthopterusThe rufous-backed antvireo is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long.
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