Birds of Brazil

    PASSERIFORMES: Thamnophilidae (Antbirds)  
Genus: Pyriglena (5 species, 5 worldwide)


Fringe-backed Fire-eye
Fringe-backed Fire-eye (Pyriglena atra) Endangered ENDEMIC
Espirito Santo, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Ciro Albano - NE Brazil Birding   © All Rights Reserved.


East Amazonian Fire-eye
East Amazonian Fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota pernambucensis) Male ENDEMIC
Brazil  
   
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza   © All Rights Reserved.

East Amazonian Fire-eye
East Amazonian Fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota) Female ENDEMIC
ESEC Murici, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Bradley Hacker   © All Rights Reserved.


White-shouldered Fire-eye
White-shouldered Fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera) Male
Parque Estadual da Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Dario Sanches     Copyright and usage info

White-shouldered Fire-eye
White-shouldered Fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera) Female
Rio Piracicaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil  
   
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza   © All Rights Reserved.


Western Fire-eye
Western Fire-eye (Pyriglena maura castanoptera) Male
San Augustin, Huila, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Western Fire-eye
Western Fire-eye (Pyriglena maura maura) Female
Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso, Brazil
  An all brown female with white brow is found from the southeast Peru foothills through Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.
   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.

Western Fire-eye
Western Fire-eye (Pyriglena maura castanoptera) Female
Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador  
   
Photograph by Matt Grube   © All Rights Reserved.

Note white back on all-black male, present on a number of species of antbirds, but sometimes hard to see or not present. Split from White-backed Fire-eye in 2020, but even this new speies has females that are all brown (Ecuador Pacific), or rufous with black head (Peru), or rufous wings with black head and body (East Andean slope, Colombia to north Peru).

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Tapajos Fire-eye (Pyriglena similis) ENDEMIC
   




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