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Spot-winged Antshrike (Pygiptila stellaris)

Spot-winged Antshrike
Photo: Hector Bottai via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Spot-winged Antshrike

The spot-winged antshrike (Pygiptila stellaris) is a species of bird in subfamily Myrmornithinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and possibly French Guiana. The spot-winged antshrike was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1825 and given the binomial name Thamnophilus stellaris. The current genus Pygiptila was erected by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1858. The spot-winged antshrike is the only member of that genus. The further taxonomy of the spot-winged antshrike is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee and the Clements taxonomy assign it these four subspecies: P. s. maculipennis (Sclater, PL, 1855) P. s. occipitalis Zimmer, JT, 1932

Source: Spot-winged antshrike on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 125 recordings for this species: 14 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Other birds you can hear here

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