The black-hooded antshrike (Thamnophilus bridgesi) is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds".

[2] The black-hooded antshrike was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1856 and given its current binomial name Thamnophilus bridgesi.

Adult females have blackish gray forehead, crown, and face with narrow white streaks.

Their underparts are olive that is darker at the upper end, and with white streaks on the throat, breast, and belly.

[4] The black-hooded antshrike's diet is not known in detail but includes a variety insects and also other arthropods like spiders.

[4][6] The black-hooded antshrike breeds between February and September in Costa Rica; its season in Panama has not been defined.

Its nest is a fairly large cup constructed of fine rootlets and other fibers and often with green moss on the outside.

It is typically attached with cobwebs by its rim in a branch fork between about 0.6 and 3.6 m (2 and 12 ft) above the ground amid foliage.

[6] "Although seemingly capable of persisting in disturbed habitats, it has gradually disappeared from much of its now deforested former range in Panama."