Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thamnophilidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. P.l. marcapatensis of Madre de Dios, Cusco and Puno.
Status: The White-backed Fire-Eye is fairly common in humid montane forest forests of the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 500-2100 m. In the humid forest of Tumbes, it is known to range at elevations between 400-800 m. The White-backed Fire-Eye also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Ojo-de-Fuego Occidental.
Sub-species: White-backed Fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota pacifica), Chapman, 1923. W Ecuador and extreme NW Peru (Tumbes).
(Pyriglena leuconota castanoptera), C. Chubb, 1916. Andean slopes in S Colombia (E slope of C range, W slope of E range in Huila, E slope of E range S from Cauca and Caquetá), Ecuador (E slope) and N Peru (N of R Marañón in Piura, Cajamarca and N Amazonas).
(Pyriglena leuconota picea), Cabanis, 1847. E Andean slope of C Peru (S Amazonas S to Junín and Ayacucho).
(Pyriglena leuconota marcapatensis), Sztolcman and Domaniewski, 1918. SE Peru (Madre de Dios, Cuzco, Puno).
Meaning of Name: Pyriglena: Gr. Puros= fire and glene= eyeball, eye. leuconota: Gr. Leukos= White notos, noton= backed, back.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.
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