Xenops
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Xenops is a genus in the South American bird family Furnariidae, the ovenbirds.
They are small birds with a longish tail, a laterally flattened bill with an upturned tip (except in the Slender-billed Xenops), brown back and buff or rufous wing stripe. They forage for insects on bark, rotting stumps or bare twigs, moving mechanically in all directions on the trunk like a woodcreeper, but without using the tail as a prop.
Together with the distinct Great Xenops (Megaxenops parnaguae), this genus forms the tribe Xenopini in the woodcreeper and xenops subfamily Dendrocolaptinae.
[edit] Species
- Rufous-tailed Xenops, Xenops milleri
- Slender-billed Xenops, Xenops tenuirostris
- Plain Xenops, Xenops minutus
- Streaked Xenops, Xenops rutilans
[edit] References
- ffrench, Richard (1991). A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago, 2nd edition, Comstock Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2.
- Hilty, Steven L (2003). Birds of Venezuela. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5.
