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Photo by Arthur Grosset
Photographed: Bahia, Brazil

Pyriglena atra

[edit] Identification

The male is black with a red eye and a large white dorsal patch which looks like that photo of a drop of milk landing and spreading outwards.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to a very small area of north-east Brazil; it is known only from a few highly fragmented areas in Bahia and Sergipe.

Classified as Endangered by Birdlife International.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species

[edit] Habitat

Lowland forest and secondary woodland

[edit] Behaviour

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