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Bare-eyed Antbird

Rhegmatorhina gymnops

The bare-eyed antbird (Rhegmatorhina gymnops), occasionally known as the Santarem antbird, is a species of insectivorous passerine bird in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The bare-eyed antbird was formally described by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1888 and given the binomial name Rhegmatorhina gymnops.This species is a specialist ant-follower that depends upon swarms of army ants to flush insects and other arthropods out of the leaf litter.

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