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Xenops rutilans

Photo by Fritz73
Photo taken: Cruce Caballero PP, Misiones, Argentina

[edit] Identification

12cm Dark brown head, whitish supercilium and malar stripe, brown upperparts, becoming rufous on the tail and rump, buff bar on the darker brown wings, white-streaked olive brown underparts. Sexes are similar.

[edit] Distribution

From Costa Rica south over Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru to Bolivia and northern Argentina. Also on Trinidad.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Wet forests in foothills and mountains between 600-2,200 m altitude.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes arthropods, and the larvae of wood-boring beetles.

It places a few stems and roots in a hole 1.5-4.5 m high in a tree for its nest. 2 white eggs are laid and are incubated by both sexes.

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