page_title: List of birds of Costa Rica
section_title: Typical antbirds
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Costa Rica / Typical antbirds
caption_attribution_description: English: Bicolored Antbird -- Parque Nacional Darién, Panama -- 2008 February
context_page_description: Although Costa Rica is a small country, it is in the bird-rich neotropical region and has a huge number of species for its area. The official bird list published by the Costa Rican Rare Birds and Records Committee of the Asociación Ornitológica de Costa Rica contained 922 species as of August 2019. This number is more than have been recorded in all of the 49 mainland United States and Canada combined. Of those species, seven are endemic, 69 are rare or accidental, and four have been introduced by humans. Another 73 are near-endemic with ranges that include only Costa Rica and Panama. Twenty-seven species, including five of the seven endemics, are globally vulnerable or endangered. Over an area of 51,100 km², an area smaller than West Virginia, this is the greatest density of bird species of any continental American country. About 600 species are resident, with most of the other regular visitors being winter migrants from North America.
  Costa Rica's geological formation played a large role in the diversification of avian species.
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Thamnophilidae
  The antbirds are a large family of small passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America. They are forest birds which tend to feed on insects at or near the ground. A sizable minority of them specialize in following columns of army ants to eat small invertebrates that leave their hiding places to flee from the ants. Many species lack bright color, with brown, black, and white being the dominant tones.
  Fasciated antshrike, Cymbilaimus lineatus
  Great antshrike, Taraba major
  Barred antshrike, Thamnophilus doliatus
  Black-hooded antshrike, Thamnophilus bridgesi (E-R)
  Black-crowned antshrike, Thamnophilus atrinucha
  Russet antshrike, Thamnistes anabatinus
  Plain antvireo, Dysithamnus mentalis
  Streak-crowned antvireo, Dysithamnus striaticeps
  Spot-crowned antvireo, Dysithamnus puncticeps
  White-flanked antwren, Myrmotherula axillaris
  Slaty antwren, Myrmotherula schisticolor
  Checker-throated stipplethroat, Epinecrophylla fulviventris
  Dot-winged antwren, Microrhopias quixensis
  Rufous-rumped antwren, Euchrepomis callinota
  Dusky antbird, Cercomacroides tyrannina
  Bare-crowned antbird, Gymnocichla nudiceps
  Zeledon's antbird, Myrmeciza zeledoni
  Chestnut-backed antbird, Poliocrania exsul
  Dull-mantled antbird, Sipia laemosticta
  Spotted antbird, Hylophylax naevioides
  Bicolored antbird, Gymnopithys bicolor
  Ocellated antbird, Phaenostictus mcleannani
caption: Bicolored antbird
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