Black-crowned Antshrike (Thamnophilus atrinucha)

Identification & Behavior: ~15 cm (6 in). The male Black-crowned Antshrike is slaty-gray with a black crown. The wing coverts are black tipped with white dots that form wing bars. The tertials are fringed with white. The tail feathers are tipped with white. The female is olive-brown with white wing bars and tail feathers tipped with white. It forages in the understory of humid and semi-deciduous forests. The female is superficially similar to a female of the smaller Plain Antvireo. Also, see a female Collared Antshrike.

Status: The Black-crowned Antshrike is fairly common in the humid and semi-deciduous forest of extreme northwest Peru, in Tumbes. It also occurs in Co and Ec.

Name in Spanish: Batará de Corona Negra.

Sub-species: Black-crowned Antshrike (Thamnophilus atrinucha atrinucha), Salvin and Goodman, 1892.

Meaning of Name: Thamnophilus: Gr. Thamnos= bush and philos= lover. atrinucha: L. ater= black nad nuchus= nape.

See more of the Family Thamnophilidae