The Uniform Antshrike has a name completely based on the male plumage which is fairly uniform (one-color). The female, on the other hand, has variations of color on the face, back and breast. Both of these birds were photographed on my latest trip to Brazil. The first picture is a male with a dark gray plumage all over. The second is the female with a gray face, dark brown back and light brown breast. I was lucky to get any photos really as they were super skulky. This species is part of the large 30 species genus Thamnophilus, but also part of a smaller subset of three sister species within that group. It has a fairly large range across the Pacific and Eastern slopes of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
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