Slender-billed Xenops

About the Slender-billed Xenops

The slender-billed xenops (Xenops tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

The slender-billed xenops has three subspecies, the nominate X. t. tenuirostris (Pelzeln, 1859), X. t. acutirostris (Chapman, 1923), and X. t. hellmayri (Todd, 1925). The slender-billed xenops is 10 to 11.5 cm (3.9 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 9 to 11 g (0.32 to 0.39 oz). Its namesake bill is wedge-shaped, and longer and thinner than those of other xenops. The sexes are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a blackish brown face with a dark brown crown that is spotted and streaked buff, a buffish white supercilium, and a pure white malar streak. Their back is rufescent brown with short, wide, elongated creamy buff spots on its upper part. Their rump and uppertail coverts are reddish rufous. Their tail's central and outermost pairs of feathers are rufous and the others mixed black and rufous; the black is visible in the field. Their wing coverts are dark brown with rufous edges and their flight... Wikipedia →