Bare-crowned Antbird
Gymnocichla nudiceps (Cassin, 1850)
Thamnophilidae — Antbirds
Bare-crowned Antbird, Gymnocichla nudiceps, is a passerine of the antbird family in Middle America and northern South America, from southern Belize to northern Colombia. It lives in lowland and foothill evergreen forest, especially where dense understorey grows along forest edges, in secondary growth, clearings, old plantations, swampy places and beside still streams. It is the only species in its genus. Males show bright blue bare skin on the forehead and around the eyes, while females have the same blue skin on the lores and around the eyes.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thamnophilidae — Antbirds
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: s Belize to n Colombia
