Rusty-winged Antwren

Herpsilochmus frater

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedInvertebratesForestTiny · 11 g

What the Rusty-winged Antwren sounds like

Sonogram of the Rusty-winged Antwren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Napo: Napo Galeras, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Rusty-winged Antwren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Napo: Napo Galeras, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Rusty-winged Antwren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: 'Labyrinth' trail, Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The rusty-winged antwren is 10 to 12.5 cm (3.9 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 10 to 12.5 g (0.35 to 0.44 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies H. f. frater have a black crown and nape, a wide white supercilium, a black stripe through the eye, and black and white striped ear coverts. Their upperparts are ashy gray with scattered black spots and streaks and a black patch between the scapulars. Their wing coverts are black with wide white tips; most of their flight feathers are blackish with dark cinnamon red outer webs and their tertiaries are blackish with white outer edges. Voice: The rusty-winged antwren's song is a "stuttered series of notes starts with an accelerating series of 8‒10 rather melodious overslurred notes at initially constant pitch...shifting to a rather unmelodious raspy rattle of some 15‒20 decelerating notes". It has been written as "tu..tu..

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When to see the Rusty-winged Antwren

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

Where to see the Rusty-winged Antwren

Regular range

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Rusty-winged Antwren

The rusty-winged antwren is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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