Percnostola rufifrons
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The black-headed antbird (Percnostola rufifrons) is a species of passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
The black-headed antbird was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the thrushes in the genus Turdus and coined the binomial name Turdus rufifrons. The specific epithet rufifrons combines the Latin rufus meaning "red" or "rufous" with frons meaning "forehead" or "front". Gmelin based his description on "Le merle roux de Cayenne" that had been described and illustrated in 1775 by the French polymath the Comte de Buffon in his book Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.
The black-headed antbird is now placed together with the Allpahuayo antbird (P. arenarum) in genus Percnostola that was introduced in 1860 by Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine. The white-lined antbird (Myrmoborus lophotes) was originally placed in Percnostola but following a 2013 study was moved to its present genus.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Black-headed Antbird sighting in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, based on 120 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 21st most-seen of the 221 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Black-headed Antbird in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, against about 20% in November, the lowest month. May to July have too few records to rate.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-headed Antbird sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Brownsberg Nature Park, in our data
Brownsberg Nature Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-headed Antbird sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Thamnophilidae
The closest relatives of the Black-headed Antbird that you can see in Brownsberg Nature Park (family Thamnophilidae, Typical Antbirds) are Guianan Warbling-Antbird (about 60%), Mouse-colored Antshrike (about 50%) and Gray Antbird (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-headed Antbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Brownsberg Nature Park (120 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
