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Reddish-winged bare-eye
The
reddish-winged
bare-eye
is a
species
of
insectivorous
passerine bird
in the
antbird
family
,
Thamnophilidae
.
It is found in
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Peru
, and
Venezuela
.
Its
natural habitat
is
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests
.
The reddish-winged bare-eye was
described
by the
English
bird
artist
and
ornithologist
John Gould
in
1855
and given the
binomial name
Formicarius
erythroptera
.
This species is a specialist
ant-follower
that relies upon swarms of
army ants
to flush
insects
and other
arthropods
out of the
leaf litter
.