Spot-crowned Antvireo

Dysithamnus puncticeps

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 15 g

What the Spot-crowned Antvireo sounds like

Sonogram of the Spot-crowned Antvireo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Duet · Esmeraldas: El Placer, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Spot-crowned Antvireo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Duet · Esmeraldas: El Placer, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Spot-crowned Antvireo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, duet · Esmeraldas: Canandé, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The 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). Adult males have a dark gray forehead, crown, and nape heavily marked with white spots. Their ear coverts are grayish. Their upperparts are grayish olive with a hidden white patch between the scapulars. Their flight feathers are dark grayish olive with wide buffy grayish edges; their wing coverts are blackish with white tips. Their tail is dark grayish olive with white tips on the feathers. Voice: The spot-crowned antvireo's song is "a rapid...trill, notes not countable, pitch first rising slightly, falling slightly terminally, pace constant initially, then accelerating slightly towards end". Its calls include a "short descending 'chirr' ".

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When to see the Spot-crowned Antvireo

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

Where to see the Spot-crowned Antvireo

Regular range

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

About the Spot-crowned Antvireo

The spot-crowned antvireo is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama.

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Easily confused with

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