Yungas Antwren

Myrmotherula grisea

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 8 g

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The Jungas antwren is 8.5 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long and weighs 8 to 10 g (0.28 to 0.35 oz). It is a smallish bird with a short tail. Adult males are almost entirely gray with slightly darker and more brownish gray wings and tail than body. Adult females have a brownish yellow face. Their upperparts are mostly olive-brown, with a grayish tinge from the crown to upper mantle and yellowish brown tips on the uppertail coverts. Their tail is dark brown with rufous-brown edges to the feathers. Voice: The Jungas antwren's song is "a series of simple, slightly downslurred notes on approximately same pitch (c. 4 kHz), delivered rapidly, notes much longer than intervals". Its calls "include sharp, upslurred 'wheep' and upslurred doubled-noted 'do-leep' ".

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When to see the Yungas Antwren

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yungas Antwren

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru.

About the Yungas Antwren

The Yungas antwren or ashy antwren is a bird species in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Bolivia and Peru.

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