Amazonian Antshrike
(Thamnophilus amazonicus)
Female Amazonian Antshrike, River Javarí, Peru, September 2003 - click for larger image Peru
September 2003

The Amazonian Antshrike is distributed throughout much of the Amazon Basin. Different sub-species have different preferences with regard to habitat. This is the nominate sub-species and we found it low down in the tangled vegetation round an ox-bow lake.

Female Amazonian Antshrike, River Javarí, Peru, September 2003 - click for larger image This female Amazonian Antshrike shows the bright orange-rufous on the head, neck and underparts though fading towards the belly. The second photo shows the black wings with white wing-bars.The male has grey replacing the orange-rufous of the female.

They are usually found in pairs and often accompany understorey flocks.

There are illustration in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 17 and in HBW, Volume 8, Pages 495 and 572.
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