Spot-winged antshrike

Spot-winged antshrike
Illustration in Avium Species Novae by Johann Baptist von Spix
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Pygiptila
P.L. Sclater, 1858
Species: P. stellaris
Binomial name
Pygiptila stellaris
(Spix, 1825)

The spot-winged antshrike (Pygiptila stellaris) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is monotypic within the genus Pygiptila.[2] It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[1]

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