Fringe-backed Fire-eye - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Arthur Grosset
Bahia, Brazil, March 2004

Identification

16–18 cm (6¼-7 in)
Male

Black overall plumage
Large white dorsal patch (which looks like that photo of a drop of milk landing and spreading outwards)
Red eye

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.

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Female
Photo by Xyko Paludo
Mata de São João, BA, Brazil, October 2017

Understorey of lowland evergreen forest, forest edges and secondary woodland.

Their diet consists almost entirely of insects, such as cockroaches, grasshoppers, winged ants, spiders and centipedes.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Arthur Grosset
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Oct 2017)

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Fringe-backed Fire-eye. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 6 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fringe-backed_Fire-eye