Reddish-winged Bare-eye
The reddish-winged bare-eye (Phlegopsis erythroptera) is a species of insectivorous passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is native to the Amazon rainforest. == Taxonomy and systematics == The reddish-winged bare-eye was described by the English bird artist and ornithologist John Gould in 1855 and given the binomial name Formicarius erythroptera. It has two subspecies, the nominate P. e. erythroptera (Gould, 1855) and P. e. ustulata (Todd, 1927). == Description == The reddish-winged bare-eye is 17 to 18.5 cm (6.7 to 7.3 in) long and weighs 50 to 58 g (1.8 to 2.0 oz). Both sexes have a large ring of bare red skin around the eye. Adult males of the nominate subspecies are mostly black. They have white edges on the feathers of their upperparts and lesser wing coverts. Their median and greater wing coverts have wide rufous tips and their flight feathers have rufous bases. The tips of their uppertail coverts are dark reddish brown. Adult females have a very dark reddish brown crown, upperparts, and wing coverts with white tips on the coverts. Their flight feathers are blackish brown with white tips on the tertials; their tail is blackish brown with a…
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