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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
12 cm long, weighs 12 g. Light brown head, buff supercilium and whitish malar stripe. The upperparts are brown, becoming rufous on the tail and rump, and there is a buff bar on the darker brown wings. The underparts are unstreaked pale olive brown. The sexes are similar, but young birds have dark brown throats. | 12 cm long, weighs 12 g. Light brown head, buff supercilium and whitish malar stripe. The upperparts are brown, becoming rufous on the tail and rump, and there is a buff bar on the darker brown wings. The underparts are unstreaked pale olive brown. The sexes are similar, but young birds have dark brown throats. | ||
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Revision as of 20:55, 24 May 2011
- Xenops minutus
Identification
12 cm long, weighs 12 g. Light brown head, buff supercilium and whitish malar stripe. The upperparts are brown, becoming rufous on the tail and rump, and there is a buff bar on the darker brown wings. The underparts are unstreaked pale olive brown. The sexes are similar, but young birds have dark brown throats.
Distribution
Southern Mexico, Ecuador, northeastern Argentina and central Brazil.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the South American bird family Furnariidae, a group in which many species build elaborate clay nests, giving rise to the English name for the family of "ovenbirds".
Habitat
Moist lowland forests.
Behaviour
The nest is made of shredded plant fibres placed in a hole between 1.5 and 9 m high in a decaying tree trunk or branch. 2 white eggs are laid, incubated by both sexes.
Diet includes insects.
