- Xenops
image_caption =Streaked Xenops
regnum =Animal ia
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 theSouth America nbird 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
insect s on bark, rotting stumps or bare twigs, moving mechanically in all directions on the trunk like awoodcreeper , 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 xenopssubfamily Dendrocolaptinae .pecies
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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
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