Blackish Antbird (Cercomacra nigrescens)
Female Blackish Antbird, Carajás, Pará, Brazil, February 2002 - click for larger image Carajás, Pará, Brazil
February 2002

The Blackish Antbird is found in the Guianas and in the Amazon Basin, mainly south of the Amazon and into Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
Female Blackish Antbird, Carajás, Pará, Brazil, February 2002 - click for larger image These two photos are of a female with her olive brown back, which has a concealed white dorsal patch, and bright rufous-orange underparts extending to the sides of the head and the forecrown.

The male is slaty grey with white at the bend of the wing and small white fringes to the wing coverts forming a wing-bar. It has no white on the tail.

It is usually in pairs in dense undergrowth or thickets at forest edges mainly in várzea forest.

There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 21; Hilty & Brown, Plate 29; and Ridgely & Greenfield, Plate 62.
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