Brazilian name: Choca-barrada-do-nordeste
The Caatinga Antshrike is distributed in north-east Brazil from eastern Piauí to Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte and south to central Bahia and the north of Minas Gerais. As its English name suggests it is found in caatinga.
In comparison with Barred Antshrike it has a shorter and thicker bill, a reddish iris and, on the male, an all-black crown. The female is chestnut rather than black with a heavily streaked throat and thin dark bars on the breast.
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