Fringe-backed Fire-eye (Pyriglena atra)
About the Fringe-backed Fire-eye
The fringe-backed fire-eye (Pyriglena atra), for a time known as Swainson's fire-eye, is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to Brazil. In Brazilian Portuguese it is called papa-taoca-da-bahia. The fringe-backed fire-eye was described by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1825 and given the binomial name Drymophila atra. The current genus Pyriglena was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847. The species at times has been treated as conspecific with the white-shouldered fire-eye (P. lecucoptera) and what was at the time the white-backed fire-eye (P. leuconata); the latter has since been split into several species. The fringe-backed fire-eye is monotypic.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 34 recordings for this species: 19 CC BY-NC-SA · 15 CC BY-NC-ND. 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.
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Listed as recorded in Brazil in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Western Fire-eyePyriglena maurarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.