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Xenops minutus

[edit] 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.

[edit] Distribution

Southern Mexico, Ecuador, northeastern Argentina and central Brazil.

[edit] 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".

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forests.

[edit] 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.

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