Clytoctantes
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Clytoctantes is a South American genus of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. Males are grey or black and females are mainly rufous. The stubby, hefty bill has a distinctly upcurved lower mandible and a straight culmen (a large version of the bills of the Recurvebills), which possibly is a modification for opening bamboo stems in their search for insects. The two species were feared to be extinct or nearly so, until both were rediscovered in 2004.
[edit] Species
- Recurve-billed Bushbird (Clytoctantes alixii)
- Rondônia Bushbird (Clytoctantes atrogularis)
The name "bushbird" is shared with the rather similar, but smaller-billed Black Bushbird from the monotypic genus Neoctantes.
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