List of Birds of Bolivia - Typical Antbirds

Typical Antbirds

Order: Passeriformes. Family: Thamnophilidae

The antbirds are a large family of small passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America. They are forest birds, and tend to feed on insects at or near the ground. A sizable minority of them specialize in following columns of army ants to eat the small invertebrates that leave hiding to flee the ants.Many species lack bright colour; brown, black and white being the dominant tones.

• Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus
• Bamboo Antshrike Cymbilaimus sanctaemariae
• Giant Antshrike Batara cinerea
• Undulated Antshrike Frederickena unduligera
• Great Antshrike Taraba major
• Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
• Chestnut-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus palliatus
• Blackish-gray Antshrike Thamnophilus nigrocinereus
• White-shouldered Antshrike Thamnophilus aethiops
• Upland Antshrike Thamnophilus aroyae
• Plain-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus schistaceus
• Mouse-colored Antshrike Thamnophilus murinus
• Natterer's Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus stictocephalus
• Bolivian Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus
• Amazonian Antshrike Thamnophilus amazonicus
• Variable Antshrike Thamnophilus caerulescens
• Rufous-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus torquatus
• Rufous-capped Antshrike Thamnophilus ruficapillus
• Spot-winged Antshrike Pygiptila stellaris
• Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
• Saturnine Antshrike Thamnomanes saturninus
• Dusky-throated Antshrike Thamnomanes ardesiacus
• Cinereous Antshrike Thamnomanes caesius
• Bluish-slate Antshrike Thamnomanes schistogynus
• Pygmy Antwren Myrmotherula brachyura
• Sclater's Antwren Myrmotherula sclateri
• Amazonian Antwren Myrmotherula multostriata
• Stripe-chested Antwren Myrmotherula longicauda
• Plain-throated Antwren Myrmotherula hauxwelli
• White-eyed Antwren Myrmotherula leucophthalma
• Stipple-throated Antwren Myrmotherula haematonota
• Ornate Antwren Myrmotherula ornata
• Rufous-tailed Antwren Myrmotherula erythrura
• White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris
• Long-winged Antwren Myrmotherula longipennis
• Ihering's Antwren Myrmotherula iheringi
• Ashy Antwren Myrmotherula grisea (E)
• Gray Antwren Myrmotherula menetriesii
• Leaden Antwren Myrmotherula assimilis
• Banded Antwren Dichrozona cincta
• Stripe-backed Antbird Myrmorchilus strigilatus
• Black-capped Antwren Herpsilochmus atricapillus
• Large-billed Antwren Herpsilochmus longirostris
• Rufous-winged Antwren Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus
• Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis
• White-fringed Antwren Formicivora grisea
• Black-bellied Antwren Formicivora melanogaster
• Rusty-backed Antwren Formicivora rufa
• Striated Antbird Drymophila devillei
• Long-tailed Antbird Drymophila caudata
• Chestnut-shouldered Antwren Terenura humeralis
• Yellow-rumped Antwren Terenura sharpei
• Gray Antbird Cercomacra cinerascens
• Blackish Antbird Cercomacra nigrescens
• Black Antbird Cercomacra serva
• Mato Grosso Antbird Cercomacra melanaria
• Manu Antbird Cercomacra manu
• White-backed Fire-eye Pyriglena leuconota
• White-browed Antbird Myrmoborus leucophrys
• Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus
• Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis cantator
• Band-tailed Antbird Hypocnemoides maculicauda
• Black-and-white Antbird Myrmochanes hemileucus
• Silvered Antbird Sclateria naevia
• Spot-winged Antbird Percnostola leucostigma
• White-lined Antbird Percnostola lophotes
• Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Myrmeciza hemimelaena
• Plumbeous Antbird Myrmeciza hyperythra
• Goeldi's Antbird Myrmeciza goeldii
• Sooty Antbird Myrmeciza fortis
• Black-throated Antbird Myrmeciza atrothorax
• White-throated Antbird Gymnopithys salvini
• Hairy-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina melanosticta
• Spot-backed Antbird Hylophylax naevia
• Dot-backed Antbird Hylophylax punctulata
• Scale-backed Antbird Hylophylax poecilinota
• Black-spotted Bare-eye Phlegopsis nigromaculata
• Reddish-winged Bare-eye Phlegopsis erythroptera