White-shouldered fire-eye

White-shouldered fire-eye
Male in São Paulo, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Pyriglena
Species: P. leucoptera
Binomial name
Pyriglena leucoptera
(Vieillot, 1818)

The white-shouldered fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is mainly found in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil and eastern Paraguay.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

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