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The spot-breasted antvireo is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long. Adult males have a dark gray forehead and crown, blackish ear coverts, and white spots on the sides of their head. Their upperparts are grayish olive with a hidden white patch between the scapulars. Their wings are blackish with wide chestnut-rufous edges on the flight feathers and white tips on the coverts. Their tail is rufous-olive with narrow white tips on the feathers. Their throat and upper breast are white and the rest of their underparts mostly yellowish. Voice: The spot-breasted antvireo's song is a "rather hurried series of some 20 mellow, slightly staccato, rising and falling notes, the last 3-5 accelerated". Its calls include a "short, upslurred 'chirr', nasal 'qwark', and a series of three notes with first two on same pitch".
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When to see the Spot-breasted Antvireo
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Spot-breasted Antvireo
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Spot-breasted Antvireo
The spot-breasted antvireo is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to Brazil.
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Easily confused with
Spot-crowned AntvireoDysithamnus puncticepsThe spot-crowned antvireo is 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) long and weighs 15 to 17 g (0.53 to 0.60 oz).
Streak-crowned AntvireoDysithamnus striaticepsThe streak-crowned antvireo is 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 15 to 17 g (0.53 to 0.60 oz).
Rufous-backed AntvireoDysithamnus xanthopterusThe rufous-backed antvireo is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long.
Side by side: Plain Antvireo vs Spot-breasted Antvireo · Spot-breasted Antvireo vs Spot-crowned Antvireo · Spot-breasted Antvireo vs Streak-crowned Antvireo
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