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Xenops
Sign in to saveXenops is a genus in the bird family Furnariidae, the ovenbirds. The genus comprises four species of xenops, all of which are found in Mexico, Central America and South America, particularly in tropical rain forests.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Furnariidae
- Collections
- ROM, CLO, USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Honduras / Nicaragua, Ecuador, Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Furnariidae
- Image
- Xenops rutilans.jpg
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- Commons category
- Xenops
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Xenops
- topic's main category
- Category:Xenops
- taxon range
- Brazil
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Xenops is a genus in the bird family Furnariidae, the ovenbirds. The genus comprises four species of xenops, all of which are found in Mexico, Central America and South America, particularly in tropical rain forests.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xenops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.