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Fringe-backed Fire-eye
Pyriglena atra
Near ThreatenedThe Fringe-backed Fire-eye is a fire-eye of humid forests in Brazil. It regularly attends army-ant swarms, seizing insects and other small creatures that flee the advancing ants. Classified as Near Threatened, it is threatened mainly by the clearing and fragmentation of its forest habitat. Fun fact: It is a specialist ant-follower, depending on roving army-ant swarms to flush the prey it eats.
- Family
- Thamnophilidae
- Group
- Typical Antbirds
- Range
- Fringe-backed Fire-eye Range — Humid forests of Brazil
- Population
- ≈ Not quantified (declining)