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White-plumed Antbird (Pithys albifrons)

White-plumed Antbird
Museum specimen photograph: Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.120526 - Pithys albifrons subsp. - Formicariidae - bird skin specimen.jpeg via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the White-plumed Antbird

The white-plumed antbird (Pithys albifrons) is a small species of insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The first formal description of the white-plumed antbird was by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae. He introduced the binomial name Pipra albifrons.

Source: White-plumed antbird on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the White-plumed Antbird. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:15) via xeno-canto.org/248819, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Call (0:22) via xeno-canto.org/249941, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela · xeno-canto lists 59 recordings for this species in total.

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