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Revision as of 18:36, 13 June 2012
- Xenops rutilans
Identification
Length: 12cm
- Dark brown head
- Whitish supercilium
- Malar stripe
- Brown upperparts, becoming rufous on the tail and rump
- Buff bar on the darker brown wings
- White-streaked olive brown underparts
- Short, upturned bill
Sexes are similar
Distribution
From Costa Rica south over Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru to Bolivia and northern Argentina. Also on Trinidad.
Taxonomy
Subspecies[1]
Eleven subspecies are recognized:
- X. r. septentrionalis: Highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama
- X. r. heterurus: Eastern Panama to north-eastern Ecuador and Venezuela; winters to Trinidad
- X. r. incomptus: Eastern Panama (Darién)
- X. r. perijanus: Sierra de Perijá (Colombia/Venezuela border)
- X. r. phelpsi: Santa Marta Mountains (north-eastern Colombia)
- X. r. guayae: Tropical western Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru (Piura)
- X. r. peruvianus: Tropical eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru
- X. r. purusianus: Brazil south of the Amazon (Rio Purús, Madeira and Tapajós)
- X. r. connectens: Eastern Bolivia and north-western Argentina
- X. r. chapadensis: South-western Brazil (Mato Grosso) and northern Bolivia (Río Beni)
- X. r. rutilans: South-eastern Brazil to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina
Habitat
Wet forests in foothills and mountains between 600-2,200 m altitude.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes arthropods, and the larvae of wood-boring beetles. Foraging behavior is typical of furnarids - flies to a low position on a branch or tree trunk, and systematically scoots upwards probing for food.
Breeding
It places a few stems and roots in a hole 1.5-4.5 m high in a tree for its nest. The 2 white eggs are incubated by both sexes.
References
- Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Streaked Xenops. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Streaked_Xenops