Black-cheeked Gnateater - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Jamfaraco
Lagoa do Peri, Florianopolis-SC, Brazil July 2005

Conopophaga melanops

Identification

Male

• Rufous crown
• Black mask
• Brown upperparts
• Rufous wing-coverts
• Grey underparts
• White throat
• Whitish belly

Female

• Lacks the mask
• There is a whitish line running from lores to well behind the eye
• Rufous underparts except for white throat and whitish belly

subadult melanops
Photo by pbono
Fazenda Angelim near Ubatuba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2003
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Distribution

Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

There are 3 subspecies:

• C. m. nigrifrons:

• Coastal north-eastern Brazil (Paraíba to Alagoas)

• C. m. perspicillata:

• Eastern Brazil (coastal Bahia and (?) adjacent Sergipe)

• C. m. melanops:

• South-eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina)

Habitat

Moist lowland Atlantic forest, forest edges and dense vegetation.

Behaviour

The diet includes insects.

Vocalisation

<flashmp3>Black Cheeked Gnateater Song Regua 17h37m21s22sep2008.mp3</flashmp3>
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Recording by Andrew Whitehouse

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Arthur Grosset
3. BF Member observations

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Black-cheeked Gnateater. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-cheeked_Gnateater

External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds

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