Photo of a female brown-bellied antwren made by Brian O'Shea in the Ralleigh Falls nature reserve in 2002. The bird is common in the undergrowth of the rainforest. The female has no checkered throat like the male does and looks a lot like other female antbirds. The male can be seen in the photo below the text, made by Serano Ramcharan in the Coezewijne nature reserve in August 2009. These birds are best told by their sound. The birds seem to have a habit of hanging from dead leaves (S. Hilty in Birds of Venezuela). This is a sound of the brown-bellied antwren, recorded by Ottema near Arapahu in Suriname.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
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Photos of other (ant)birds from Suriname, part 6