Yellow-browed Antbird

Hypocnemis hypoxantha

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 12 g

What the Yellow-browed Antbird sounds like

Sonogram of the Yellow-browed Antbird: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Napo: 'Gareno (Guaponi) Lodge', Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Yellow-browed Antbird: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Pastaza: Churunalpi, 5 km N Canelos, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Yellow-browed Antbird: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Felipe Jiménez · Song · Reserva Natural Selva, Leticia, Amazonas., Colombia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The yellow-browed antbird is 11 to 13 cm (4.3 to 5.1 in) long and weighs 10 to 13 g (0.35 to 0.46 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a black crown with white spots down its center. They have a bright lemon yellow supercilium and ear coverts, a black line through the eye, and a black malar "moustache". Their upperparts, sides, flanks, and tail are light grayish olive. Their flight feathers are grayish olive with white tips and their wing coverts black with white tips. Their throat and underparts are bright lemon yellow with some black streaks on the side of the breast. Voice: The yellow-browed antbird's song is "an evenly and slow-paced, descending series of modulated whistles: DCHEET djeet djeer djeer djeer djeer djer" and it calls "a whistled, whiny series of descending notes: pwee-pwee-pwee and burry grr-grr".

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When to see the Yellow-browed Antbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-browed Antbird

Regular range

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

About the Yellow-browed Antbird

The yellow-browed antbird, or yellow-browed antwarbler, is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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