Spix's Antwarbler Hypocnemis striata
(aka Spix's Warbling-Antbird)

Brazilian name: papa-formiga-cantador
Male Spix's Warbling-Antbird, Carajás, Pará, Brazil, February 2002 - click for larger image Carajás, Pará, Brazil
February 2002

The Spix's Antwarbler is distributed in Brazil south of the Amazon and east of the middle and lower Madeira. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in forest borders and secondary woodland often near water or marshes. It gleans in foliage and often picks its prey from the underside of leaves.
Male Warbling Antbird, Carajás, Pará, Brazil, February 2002 - click for larger image It has strongly marked black and white upperparts in the male and is quite rufescent on the flanks.

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