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Alternative name: Northern Plain Xenops
- Xenops mexicanus
Identification
Distribution
Central America and South America: From Southern Mexico through Panama, west of the Andes in Ecuador and Colombia, northern and lowland northeastern Colombia and northern Venezuela.
Taxonomy
Northern Plain-Xenops was formerly lumped together with Atlantic Plain-Xenops and Amazonian Plain-Xenops under the name of Plain Xenops.
Subspecies
Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:
- X. m. mexicanus: Tropical southern Mexico to Honduras
- X. m. ridgwayi: Tropical Nicaragua to Costa Rica and western Panama
- X. m. littoralis: Tropical eastern Panama to western Ecuador (El Oro)
- X. m. neglectus: North Colombia and northern Venezuela
- X. m. olivaceus: Lowlands of north-eastern Colombia
Habitat
Behaviour
Vocalisation
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, M. Smith, and C. L. Wood. 2024. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2024. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 15.1). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.15.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Angehr and Dean 2010. The birds of Panama, a field guide
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Northern Plain-Xenops. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Northern_Plain-Xenops
External Links
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