Xenops

Taxobox
name = "Xenops"

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image_caption = Streaked Xenops
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Furnariidae
subfamilia = Dendrocolaptinae
genus = "Xenops"
genus_authority = Illiger, 1811
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"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.

pecies

* Rufous-tailed Xenops, "Xenops milleri"
* Slender-billed Xenops, "Xenops tenuirostris"
* Plain Xenops, "Xenops minutus"
* Streaked Xenops, "Xenops rutilans"

References

*cite book
last = ffrench
first = Richard
title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
edition = 2nd edition
year = 1991
publisher = Comstock Publishing
isbn = 0-8014-9792-2
*cite book
last = Hilty
first = Steven L
title = Birds of Venezuela
publisher = Christopher Helm
date = 2003
location = London
isbn = 0-7136-6418-5