Birds of Peru

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Genus: Hypocnemis (3 species, 8 worldwide)

Genus Hypocnemis, Antwarblers or Warbling Antbirds, are a small group of small understory antbirds with a distinctive type of call. Similar Warbling Antbirds are often identified by range.


Yellow-browed Antbird
Yellow-browed Antbird (Hypocnemis hypoxantha hypoxantha)
Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
Grouped with and sounds like a Warbling Antbird.

Peruvian Warbling Antbird
Peruvian Warbling Antbird (Hypocnemis peruviana saturata)
Amacayacu National Park, Amazonas, Colombia
  More scaled in front than others in this genus. 		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

From front.

Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird
Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird (Hypocnemis subflava collinsi)
Puerto Maldonado, Peru   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
Perhaps the most distinctive of the Warbling Antbirds. Found in south Peru (southwest Amazon) and overlaps a bit with the Peruvian Warbling Antbird.

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