Typical Antbirds (Thamnophilidae)
White-backed Fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota) - HBW 8, p. 636
French: Alapi à dos blanc
German: Schwarzes Feuerauge
Spanish: Ojodefuego Dorsiblanco
Taxonomy: Myothera leuconota Spix, 1824, Pará, Brazil.
Forms a superspecies with P. atra and P. leucoptera, and sometimes treated as conspecific. Populations of present species appear to involve more than one species; conversely, some races may represent merely clinal variation in plumage; taxonomic study required. Ten subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- pacifica Chapman, 1923 - W Ecuador and extreme NW Peru (Tumbes).
- castanoptera Chubb, 1916 - Andean slopes in S Colombia (E slope of C range, W slope of E range in Huila, E slope of E range S from Cauca and Caquetá), Ecuador (E slope) and N Peru (N of R Marañón in Piura, Cajamarca and N Amazonas).
- picea Cabanis, 1847 - E Andean slope of C Peru (S Amazonas S to Junín and Ayacucho).
- pacifica Chapman, 1923 - W Ecuador and extreme NW Peru (Tumbes).
- castanoptera Chubb, 1916 - Andean slopes in S Colombia (E slope of C range, W slope of E range in Huila, E slope of E range S from Cauca and Caquetá), Ecuador (E slope) and N Peru (N of R Marañón in Piura, Cajamarca and N Amazonas).
- picea Cabanis, 1847 - E Andean slope of C Peru (S Amazonas S to Junín and Ayacucho).
- marcapatensis Stolzmann & Domaniewski, 1918 - SE Peru (Madre de Dios, Cuzco, Puno).
- hellmayri Stolzmann & Domaniewski, 1918 - WC Bolivia (Beni, La Paz, Cochabamba, W Santa Cruz).
- maura (Ménétriés, 1835) - E Bolivia (E Santa Cruz), SC Brazil (W & SW Mato Grosso) and extreme N Paraguay (Alto Paraguay).
- similis J. T. Zimmer, 1931 - SC Amazonian Brazil in Pará and N Mato Grosso (R Tapajós E to R Xingu).
- interposita Pinto, 1947 - E Pará from R Xingu E to R Tocantins.
- leuconota (Spix, 1824) - E Pará (E of R Tocantins) and N Maranhão.
- pernambucensis J. T. Zimmer, 1931 - NE Brazil (E Pernambuco, E Alagoas).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A female eating a caterpillar Locality Cock of the Rock Lodge, Kosñipata Valley, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Madre de Dios Department, Peru (ssp marcapatensis)
Josep del Hoyo 30 July 2005 7 years ago 35 sec 3.3 -
A male singing and changing branches. Locality Murici Reserve, Alagoas State, Brazil (ssp pernambucensis)
Josep del Hoyo 10 October 2008 3 years ago 23 sec 3.2 -
A female perched, showing its white back patch and flying away Locality Cock of the Rock Lodge, Kosñipata Valley, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Madre de Dios Department, Peru (ssp marcapatensis)
Josep del Hoyo 30 July 2005 7 years ago 20 sec 3.2 -
A male on a branch, preening in the rain. Locality Murici Reserve, Alagoas State, Brazil (ssp pernambucensis)
Josep del Hoyo 9 October 2008 3 years ago 35 sec 2.8 -
Because we did not have the sound of the White-backed Fire-eye, we used the sound of the Fringe-backed Fire-eye. Locality Murici Reserve, Alagoas State, Brazil
Yoel Jimenez 27 November 2006 3 years ago 13 sec 1.9
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A close-up of a male.
Locality Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil (ssp maura)
Tatiana Colombo 22 August 2008 4 years ago 4.3 -
A close-up of a male.
Locality Cáceres, Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil (ssp maura)
Tatiana Colombo 22 August 2008 4 years ago 3.8 -
Adult male White-backed Fire-eye
Locality Jaqueira (Frei Caneca Reserve), Pernambuco State, Brazil
Stephen John Jones 21 April 2009 2 years ago 2.6
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Recorded at Cock of the Rock Lodge. Locality Cock of the Rock Lodge, Kosñipata Valley, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Madre de Dios Department, Peru
Joe Klaiber 42 weeks ago 5 -
Song. Locality Río Palenque Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(ssp pacifica)
Nick Athanas 30 July 2001 3 years ago 4 -
Singing at an ant swarm. Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil
(ssp interposita)
David Beadle 3 February 2002 12 weeks ago 0 -
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Bird singing in a forest. Locality Santa Bárbara do Pará, Pará State, Brazil
Antonio Silveira 12 November 2005 41 weeks ago 0
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