Genus Myrmeciza

 

Black-throated Antbird - The Black-throated Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

 

Yapacana Antbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Chestnut-backed Antbird - This is a common bird in the understory thickets of wet forest, especially at edges, along streams and in old treefall clearings, and in adjacent tall second growth. The female lays two purple or red-brown spotted white eggs, which are incubated by both sexes, in an untidy cup nest which is constructed from vines, plant fibre and dead leaves and placed low in vegetation. The male and female parents both feed the chicks.

 

Ferruginous-backed Antbird - The Ferruginous-backed Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Sooty Antbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Goeldi's Antbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Grey-headed Antbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

 

Chestnut-tailed Antbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

 

Plumbeous Antbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps.

Immaculate Antbird - The Immaculate Antbird is a species of antbird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela, and possibly Honduras. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The species feeds on insects, and regularly follows swarms of army ants in order to catch prey flushed by the swarms, but it is not an obligate ant-follower like some species of antbird

 

Dull-mantled Antbird - The Dull-mantled Antbird is 13–14 cm long and weighs around 24 g. Overall, these birds look essentially blackish grey in the front half and dark reddish brown in the hind part, with a black wing-patch with white spots right where the two main colors meet. But in the dusky forest understory, the birds may appear all-black, with only the white spotting standing out.

 

White-bellied Antbird - This antbird, like others in its family, is a forest bird with a preference for undergrowth in dry or moist deciduous habitats. It is a resident breeder which lays two or three eggs in a nest in a tree, both sexes incubating.

 

White-bibbed Antbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

 

Esmeraldas Antbird - The Esmeraldas Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. The species has been the source of taxonomic confusion in the past, as the male was placed as a separate species . It is only recently that the male and female were realised to be the same species.

 

Grey-bellied Antbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Scalloped Antbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

 

Squamate Antbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Thamnophilidae
Genus : Myrmeciza