antbirds

Birds found here and in only few other places include white-bellied seedeaters Sporophila leucoptera, grassland yellow-finches Sicalis luteola, chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus, tropical peewees Contopus cinereus, rufous-throated antbirds Gymnopithys rufigula, black-breasted puffbirds Notharchus pectoralis, and plain-bellied emeralds Amazilia leucogaster.

Marajó varzea 2008

The seasonal deciduous forest is a well-known center of endemism for birds, harboring two very specialized species of antbirds (slender antbird Rhophornis ardesiaca and narrow-billed antbird Formicivora iheringi).

Bahia interior forests 2008

Endemic species found here include Rio Branco antbirds (Cercomacra carbonaria), spot-backed antwrens (Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus), chestnut-crested antbirds (Rhegmatorhina cristata), and Orinoco piculets (Picumnus pumilus).

Rio Negro campinarana 2008

Both the white-plumed and the rufousthroated antbirds seem to require a largish feeding area—large enough that they share it with at least a couple of ant colonies putting their armies on the march daily.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

After six months of isolation, therefore, army ants were gone from the one-hectare reserve, and the whiteplumed and rufous-throated antbirds were gone too.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Both the white-plumed and the rufousthroated antbirds seem to require a largish feeding area—large enough that they share it with at least a couple of ant colonies putting their armies on the march daily.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

After six months of isolation, therefore, army ants were gone from the one-hectare reserve, and the whiteplumed and rufous-throated antbirds were gone too.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The antbirds were chirping and hopping about on the very edge of the jungle, but I did not have to go that far.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

The sharp, high notes of white-fronted antbirds -- those white-crested watchers of the ants -- came to my ears, and I left my table and followed up the sound.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

A big blue morpho butterfly flapped slowly past out of the jungle, and in its wake came the distant notes -- high and sharp -- of the white-fronted antbirds; and I knew that the legionaries were again abroad, radiating on their silent, dynamic paths of life from some new temporary nest deep in the jungle.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919