July 2001
The Variable Antshrike is well named because it is highly variable across its range from Peru and Bolivia to Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil. There is a disjunct population in north east Brazil.
It is normally found in the lower growth of forest often at the forest edges. This bird was photographed in restinga, lowland sandy forest.
It is often seen lowering and raising its tail slowly and usually travels in pairs, sometimes forming part of a mixed flock.
There is an illustration in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 17.
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