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Reddish-winged Bare-eye

Phlegopsis erythroptera

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestSmall · 55 g
Reddish-winged Bare-eye (Phlegopsis erythroptera), photo 1
Photo: adarrah · CC BY 4.0

What the Reddish-winged Bare-eye sounds like

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

ID tip

The reddish-winged bare-eye is 17 to 18.5 cm (6.7 to 7.3 in) long and weighs 50 to 58 g (1.8 to 2.0 oz). Both sexes have a large ring of bare red skin around the eye. Adult males of the nominate subspecies are mostly black. They have white edges on the feathers of their upperparts and lesser wing coverts. Their median and greater wing coverts have wide rufous tips and their flight feathers have rufous bases. The tips of their uppertail coverts are dark reddish brown. Adult females have a very dark reddish brown crown, upperparts, and wing coverts with white tips on the coverts. Voice: The reddish-winged bare-eye's song is a "series of 4-7 descending, well-separated, shrill notes". It has been written as "rrr RHEEEW-rheeew rheeew rhew rhhw". Its calls include an "abrupt 'chip' " and a short "sharply downslurred 'chirr' ".

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When to see the Reddish-winged Bare-eye

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

Where to see the Reddish-winged Bare-eye

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries 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.

Ecuador Brazil Peru Colombia Venezuela

Recorded as a rare visitor in Bolivia.

About the Reddish-winged Bare-eye

The reddish-winged bare-eye is a species of insectivorous passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is native to the Amazon rainforest.

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

Easily confused with

Pale-faced Bare-eyePhlegopsis borbaeThe pale-faced bare-eye is 16.5 to 17.5 cm (6.5 to 6.9 in) long and weighs about 50 g (1.8 oz). Black-spotted Bare-eye (Phlegopsis nigromaculata) Black-spotted Bare-eyePhlegopsis nigromaculataThe black-spotted bare-eye is 16.5 to 18.5 cm (6.5 to 7.3 in) long and weighs 42 to 51 g (1.5 to 1.8 oz).

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