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Pygmy antwren
Myrmotherula brachyura - Pigmy antwren.JPG
at Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Genus:
Myrmotherula
Species:
brachyura
Myrmotherula brachyura map.svg

The pygmy antwren (Myrmotherula brachyura) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae, the antbirds. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

The pygmy antwren is a bird of the entire Amazon Basin, the Guianan region, and the southeast Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela; besides northern Brazil, it occurs in Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

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