Pyriglena leuconota
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The East Amazonian fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota) is an insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to Brazil. The East Amazonian fire-eye was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824 and given the binomial name Myothera leuconota. The current genus Pyriglena was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847.
The East Amazonian fire-eye's taxonomy remains unsettled. The International Ornithological Congress, the Clements taxonomy, and the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society treat it as a species with these three subspecies:
However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treats the three taxa as subspecies of what it calls the white-backed fire-eye, with the binomial Pyriglena leuconota sensu lato. Starting in 2020 the other three systems split the white-backed into the East Amazonian, Tapajos, and western fire-eyes.
The Tapajos fire-eye is 16 to 18 cm... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an East Amazonian Fire-eye sighting in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 197th most-seen of the 273 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report an East Amazonian Fire-eye in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May and July–January, the lowest months. That is one of Chapada dos Guimarães National Park's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 240 mm in March. February to April have too few records to rate.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most East Amazonian Fire-eye sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 4
Of the 4 parks where we can rate East Amazonian Fire-eye sightings, Chapada dos Guimarães National Park ranks 3rd at under 5%. The best odds are in Amboró National Park (Bolivia, about 30%) and Machalilla National Park (Ecuador, about 10%).
Same family: Thamnophilidae
The closest relatives of the East Amazonian Fire-eye that you can see in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (family Thamnophilidae, Typical Antbirds) are Large-billed Antwren (about 20%), Planalto Slaty-Antshrike (about 20%) and Barred Antshrike (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the East Amazonian Fire-eye is recorded against all the birds logged in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (14 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.
