The Rio Branco antbird (''Cercomacra carbonaria'') is a bird species in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil (

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) and

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

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. It is severely threatened by habitat loss. The Rio Branco antbird was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1873 and given its current

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''Cercomacra carbonaria''. It was listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List in 2008. In 2012, it was assessed as Critically Endangered by

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, which says the species likely to go extinct in twenty years if deforestation continues at its current pace.

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