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[[Image:Fringe-backed_Fire-eye.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Arthur Grosset<br>Photographed:  Bahia, [[Brazil]] ]]
[[Image:Fringe-backed_Fire-eye.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Arthur Grosset<br>Photographed:  Bahia, Brazil]]
 
Classified as Endangered by Birdlife International.
 
 
 
  
 
==Identification==
 
==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.
 
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.
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
Endemic to a very small area of north-east Brazil. It is known only from a few highly fragmented areas of lowland forest and secondary woodland in Bahia and Sergipe.
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Endemic to a very small area of north-east [[Brazil]]; it is known only from a few highly fragmented areas in Bahia and Sergipe.
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Classified as Endangered by Birdlife International.
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
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This is a monotypic species
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
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Lowland forest and secondary woodland
 
==Behaviour==
 
==Behaviour==
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Pyriglena+atra}}  
 
{{GSearch|Pyriglena+atra}}  
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Revision as of 01:07, 1 August 2008

Pyriglena atra
Photo by Arthur Grosset
Photographed: Bahia, Brazil

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.

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.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species

Habitat

Lowland forest and secondary woodland

Behaviour

External Links

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