Genus Myrmotherula

 

Leaden Antwren - The Leaden Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

White-flanked Antwren - This is a common and confiding bird of primary and second growth forest, usually found in small groups. The female lays two purple-marked white eggs, which are incubated by both sexes for 16 days to hatching, in a small plant fibre and dead leaf cup nest low in a tree or shrub.

 

Plain-winged Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

 

Pygmy Antwren - The Pygmy Antwren is a bird of the entire Amazon Basin, the Guianan region, and the southeast Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela; besides northern Brazil, it occurs in Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

 

Cherrie's Antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

 

Rio de Janeiro Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

 

Ashy Antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

 

Rufous-bellied Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Brown-bellied Antwren - The Brown-bellied Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It was formerly placed in the genus Myrmotherula. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Plain-throated Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Unlike other Myrmotherula, it stays near ground level often clinging sideways to saplings.

 

Moustached Antwren - The Moustached Antwren is a species of small Neotropical bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It has two allopatric subspecies, both sometimes considered separate monotypic species: The Griscom's Antwren ignota) is found the Chocó of north-western Ecuador, western Colombia and eastern Panama, and the Short-billed Antwren obscura) is found in the Amazon of north-eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, south-eastern Colombia and north-western Brazil. The former has sometimes been considered conspecific with the Pygmy Antwren, but based on voices it has been recommended treating ignota and obscura as a subspecies of a single species. Both are found in the sub-canopy of humid lowland forests.

 

Ihering's Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Klages' Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss and overpopulation of the tsetse fly, its major enemy.

 

Stripe-chested Antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and heavily degraded former forest.

 

Grey Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Salvadori's Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

 

Amazonian Streaked-antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.

 

Pacific antwren - The Pacific Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.

 

Slaty Antwren - This is a common bird in the understory of wet forest and in adjacent tall second growth in foothills typically from 700 m to 1700 m altitude, although locally it may be found down to sea level or up to 2000 m. The female lays two red-brown spotted white eggs, which are incubated by both sexes, in a deep pouch nest constructed from plant fibres. The nest is suspended from the fork of a thin twig less than 2 m up. The male and female parents both feed the chicks.

 

Sclater's Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Myrmotherula snowi - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

 

Rio Suno Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

 

Guianan streaked antwren - The Guianan Streaked-Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

 

Unicoloured Antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

 

Band-tailed Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Thamnophilidae
Genus : Myrmotherula