Bar-crested Antshrike, Caldas, Colombia #barcrestedantshrike #bird #birdsSeenIn2026 #birdphotography #birding #andes #antshrikes #conservationphotography #wildbirdphotography #nikonphotography2026 #birdcpp #biodiversity markscheflen.com
September 2, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Bar-crested Antshrike, Caldas, Colombia #barcrestedantshrike #bird #birdsSeenIn2026 #birdphotography #birding #andes #antshrikes #conservationphotography #wildbirdphotography #nikonphotography2026 #birdcpp #biodiversity markscheflen.com
The Barred Antshrikes have such great hairdos. At Tapir Valley, Costa Rica.
October 6, 2023 at 2:04 AM
The Barred Antshrikes have such great hairdos. At Tapir Valley, Costa Rica.
hook. Perhaps that comes in handy as it flips through leaf litter on the forest floor looking for prey. They have muscular legs as well & often cling to a vertical tree-trunk surface. These antshrikes construct their nests from moss & rhizomorphs, the root-like structures of fungi! Antshrikes are
February 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
hook. Perhaps that comes in handy as it flips through leaf litter on the forest floor looking for prey. They have muscular legs as well & often cling to a vertical tree-trunk surface. These antshrikes construct their nests from moss & rhizomorphs, the root-like structures of fungi! Antshrikes are
#Bird of the Day: Barred Antshrike (BAAN)
Pairs of barred antshrikes are monogamous & fiercely defend their territory. Where you see one, its partner is not far. And yet the male is more visible, with the eponymous black & white barring that makes it stand out as he hops through dense vegetation.
Pairs of barred antshrikes are monogamous & fiercely defend their territory. Where you see one, its partner is not far. And yet the male is more visible, with the eponymous black & white barring that makes it stand out as he hops through dense vegetation.
March 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#Bird of the Day: Barred Antshrike (BAAN)
Pairs of barred antshrikes are monogamous & fiercely defend their territory. Where you see one, its partner is not far. And yet the male is more visible, with the eponymous black & white barring that makes it stand out as he hops through dense vegetation.
Pairs of barred antshrikes are monogamous & fiercely defend their territory. Where you see one, its partner is not far. And yet the male is more visible, with the eponymous black & white barring that makes it stand out as he hops through dense vegetation.
tropical birdsong is really hard because like 50% of the birds just make weird trills and rolls. so you gotta go by voice. foliage gleaners sound annoyed. antshrikes are like cartoon characters. antpittas either sound tired or like they'd be very nice to you. flycatchers want you dead 🪶🦉🧪
March 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
tropical birdsong is really hard because like 50% of the birds just make weird trills and rolls. so you gotta go by voice. foliage gleaners sound annoyed. antshrikes are like cartoon characters. antpittas either sound tired or like they'd be very nice to you. flycatchers want you dead 🪶🦉🧪
there’s about a million antbirds antthrushes antshrikes antwrens antpittas antvireos
April 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
there’s about a million antbirds antthrushes antshrikes antwrens antpittas antvireos
#BirdsSeenIn2026, #Ecuador, #Manabi
Oops! The Thick-billed Seed Finch escaped with the Social Flycatcher in the previous post!
Also nearby was an adorable Bananaquit.
From earlier this month at #RefugioLaTomatera were Collared Antshrikes and a Pacific Elaenia (Myiopagis subplacens)
Oops! The Thick-billed Seed Finch escaped with the Social Flycatcher in the previous post!
Also nearby was an adorable Bananaquit.
From earlier this month at #RefugioLaTomatera were Collared Antshrikes and a Pacific Elaenia (Myiopagis subplacens)
May 27, 2026 at 12:56 AM
#BirdsSeenIn2026, #Ecuador, #Manabi
Oops! The Thick-billed Seed Finch escaped with the Social Flycatcher in the previous post!
Also nearby was an adorable Bananaquit.
From earlier this month at #RefugioLaTomatera were Collared Antshrikes and a Pacific Elaenia (Myiopagis subplacens)
Oops! The Thick-billed Seed Finch escaped with the Social Flycatcher in the previous post!
Also nearby was an adorable Bananaquit.
From earlier this month at #RefugioLaTomatera were Collared Antshrikes and a Pacific Elaenia (Myiopagis subplacens)
Antshrikes are not closely related to true shrikes but instead fall under the antbird category. In these shots you can see both the deep red eye of the FAAN and the hooked bill that is reminiscent of the carnivorous true shrikes. This is the male #bird; the female has a reddish crown of feathers
May 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Antshrikes are not closely related to true shrikes but instead fall under the antbird category. In these shots you can see both the deep red eye of the FAAN and the hooked bill that is reminiscent of the carnivorous true shrikes. This is the male #bird; the female has a reddish crown of feathers
"They Come in Twos" - Antshrikes always seem to come in #pairs and it was no different for the Black-crowned #antshrike. Close behind the brown female was the dusky male. #PanamaCity, #Panama.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"They Come in Twos" - Antshrikes always seem to come in #pairs and it was no different for the Black-crowned #antshrike. Close behind the brown female was the dusky male. #PanamaCity, #Panama.
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i know this sounds insane but it has worked for me before. last year i heard a cartoony noise in the mountains and told the guide i heard an antshrike and he said there weren't expected antshrikes there. we looked and it was a uniform antshrike, his first for the eastern andes where it's uncommon 🪶🧪
tropical birdsong is really hard because like 50% of the birds just make weird trills and rolls. so you gotta go by voice. foliage gleaners sound annoyed. antshrikes are like cartoon characters. antpittas either sound tired or like they'd be very nice to you. flycatchers want you dead 🪶🦉🧪
March 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
i know this sounds insane but it has worked for me before. last year i heard a cartoony noise in the mountains and told the guide i heard an antshrike and he said there weren't expected antshrikes there. we looked and it was a uniform antshrike, his first for the eastern andes where it's uncommon 🪶🧪
Nope, not corvids. Antshrikes in the antbird family.
April 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Nope, not corvids. Antshrikes in the antbird family.
antshrikes, ant-tanagers, antpittas, antvireos & antthrushes! Some of these are specialists in eating ants, while others follow battalions of army ants to feast on hapless creatures as they flee from the marching ants. The CBAN ‘s range spans only from lower C. America through Colombia/Ecuador and
February 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
antshrikes, ant-tanagers, antpittas, antvireos & antthrushes! Some of these are specialists in eating ants, while others follow battalions of army ants to feast on hapless creatures as they flee from the marching ants. The CBAN ‘s range spans only from lower C. America through Colombia/Ecuador and
"Another Couple of Birds" - #Dusky #antbirds, like #antshrikes, move in pairs. Here is a skulking male (slaty grey) and his more showy female partner (cinnamon-brown) - Gamboa, #Panama🇵🇦
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September 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"Another Couple of Birds" - #Dusky #antbirds, like #antshrikes, move in pairs. Here is a skulking male (slaty grey) and his more showy female partner (cinnamon-brown) - Gamboa, #Panama🇵🇦
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Spot-winged Antshrike (Pygiptila stellaris)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML622022088 - Spot-winged Antshrike - Macaulay Library
© Beto Guido Méndez; Novo Mundo, Mato Grosso, Brazil; 30 Jul 2024
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April 14, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Spot-winged Antshrike (Pygiptila stellaris)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
IUCN status: Least Concern
White-shouldered Fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: eastern Brazil (eastern Bahia) to eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: eastern Brazil (eastern Bahia) to eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML281393561 - White-shouldered Fire-eye - Macaulay Library
© Elisa Focante; Monteiro Lobato, São Paulo, Brazil; 29 Aug 2020
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December 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
White-shouldered Fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: eastern Brazil (eastern Bahia) to eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: eastern Brazil (eastern Bahia) to eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Zeledon's Antbird (Hafferia zeledoni)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML615934417 - Zeledon's Antbird - Macaulay Library
© Kathryn Dick; Puntarenas, Costa Rica; 26 Nov 2023
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December 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Zeledon's Antbird (Hafferia zeledoni)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Chestnut-crested Antbird (Rhegmatorhina cristata)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Brazil
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Brazil
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML632220453 - Chestnut-crested Antbird - Macaulay Library
© Timo Mitzen; Vaupés, Colombia; 11 Mar 2025
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January 28, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Chestnut-crested Antbird (Rhegmatorhina cristata)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Brazil
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Brazil
IUCN status: Least Concern
Yungas Antwren (Myrmotherula grisea)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: Andean foothills of western Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: Andean foothills of western Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz)
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML512836441 - Ashy Antwren - Macaulay Library
© Àlex Giménez; La Paz, Bolivia; 11 Dec 2022
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August 18, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Yungas Antwren (Myrmotherula grisea)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: Andean foothills of western Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: Andean foothills of western Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Tufted Antshrike (Mackenziaena severa)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil to eastern Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil to eastern Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML315384871 - Tufted Antshrike - Macaulay Library
© Michel Gutierrez; Camacan, Bahia, Brazil; 23 Mar 2019
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September 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Tufted Antshrike (Mackenziaena severa)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil to eastern Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil to eastern Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina (Misiones)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Bananal Antbird (Cercomacra ferdinandi)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: central Brazil (Bananal Island and right bank of Rio Javaés, Tocantins)
IUCN status: Near Threatened
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: central Brazil (Bananal Island and right bank of Rio Javaés, Tocantins)
IUCN status: Near Threatened
ML175784841 - Bananal Antbird - Macaulay Library
© Silvia F🪶 Linhares; Pium, Tocantins, Brazil; 09 Aug 2019
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January 13, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Bananal Antbird (Cercomacra ferdinandi)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: central Brazil (Bananal Island and right bank of Rio Javaés, Tocantins)
IUCN status: Near Threatened
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: central Brazil (Bananal Island and right bank of Rio Javaés, Tocantins)
IUCN status: Near Threatened
Unicolored Antwren (Myrmotherula unicolor)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil (northern Rio de Janeiro to far northern Rio Grande do Sul)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil (northern Rio de Janeiro to far northern Rio Grande do Sul)
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML565117331 - Unicolored Antwren - Macaulay Library
© Silvia F🪶 Linhares; Mongaguá, São Paulo, Brazil; 04 Jul 2022
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March 30, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Unicolored Antwren (Myrmotherula unicolor)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil (northern Rio de Janeiro to far northern Rio Grande do Sul)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil (northern Rio de Janeiro to far northern Rio Grande do Sul)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Squamate Antbird (Myrmoderus squamosus)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro to northeastern Rio Grande do Sul)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro to northeastern Rio Grande do Sul)
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML135094611 - Squamate Antbird - Macaulay Library
© Ian Davies; Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil; 21 Dec 2018
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May 27, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Squamate Antbird (Myrmoderus squamosus)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro to northeastern Rio Grande do Sul)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: southeastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro to northeastern Rio Grande do Sul)
IUCN status: Least Concern
Collared Antshrike (Thamnophilus bernardi)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: arid tropical southwestern Ecuador to north-central Peru); Isla Puná
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: arid tropical southwestern Ecuador to north-central Peru); Isla Puná
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML613678683 - Collared Antshrike - Macaulay Library
© Emily Turteltaub Nelson; Loja, Ecuador; 01 Nov 2023
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December 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Collared Antshrike (Thamnophilus bernardi)
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: arid tropical southwestern Ecuador to north-central Peru); Isla Puná
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Thamnophilidae (Antbirds, Antshrikes, Antwrens, and Antvireos)
Range: arid tropical southwestern Ecuador to north-central Peru); Isla Puná
IUCN status: Least Concern
Birds attract a lot of attention. Thus, perhaps not too surprising that a paper by Cerqueira et al. on antshrikes in Brazil (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) tops the list of most downloaded Zoologica Scripta papers published in 2024 & 2025.
#zoologicascripta
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#zoologicascripta
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March 13, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Birds attract a lot of attention. Thus, perhaps not too surprising that a paper by Cerqueira et al. on antshrikes in Brazil (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) tops the list of most downloaded Zoologica Scripta papers published in 2024 & 2025.
#zoologicascripta
@wileyecology.bsky.social
#zoologicascripta
@wileyecology.bsky.social
Collared Antshrikes, male & female. (Tumbesian endemic)
Almost always if you see one, the second is nearby. They bark and growl and can be quite comical. Their Tumbesian EBA is considered one of the most endangered on the planet.
la Tomatera Refugio - Portoviejo,Ecuador.
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#BirdsSeenin2025
Almost always if you see one, the second is nearby. They bark and growl and can be quite comical. Their Tumbesian EBA is considered one of the most endangered on the planet.
la Tomatera Refugio - Portoviejo,Ecuador.
#birds
#BirdsSeenin2025
January 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Collared Antshrikes, male & female. (Tumbesian endemic)
Almost always if you see one, the second is nearby. They bark and growl and can be quite comical. Their Tumbesian EBA is considered one of the most endangered on the planet.
la Tomatera Refugio - Portoviejo,Ecuador.
#birds
#BirdsSeenin2025
Almost always if you see one, the second is nearby. They bark and growl and can be quite comical. Their Tumbesian EBA is considered one of the most endangered on the planet.
la Tomatera Refugio - Portoviejo,Ecuador.
#birds
#BirdsSeenin2025