Recurve-billed Bushbird (Clytoctantes alixii) | Photos and ID

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ForestSmall · 31 g

Recurve-billed Bushbird (Clytoctantes alixii), photo 1 — Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

Recurve-billed Bushbird (Clytoctantes alixii), photo 2 — Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

Recurve-billed Bushbird (Clytoctantes alixii), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The recurve-billed bushbird is 16 to 17 cm (6.3 to 6.7 in) long. It is rather stocky with a short tail. Its large bill is pale horn; it is laterally compressed and the mandible is upturned. The sexes have different plumage. Adult males are generally dark gray, with a white patch between their shoulders. Their lores, throat, and the center of their upper breast are black. Their wing coverts have small black spots and their flight feathers are brownish black. Adult females have a dark rufous-brown crown, back, and rump. Their wings and tail are blackish with pale rufous tips on the wing coverts. Voice: The recurve-billed bushbird's vocalization is a "loud, mid-range whistling peeeuw peeeuw peeuw-pweet-pweet-pweet.

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When to see the Recurve-billed Bushbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Recurve-billed Bushbird

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Venezuela

About the Recurve-billed Bushbird

The recurve-billed bushbird is an Endangered species of Thamnophilid antbird that inhabits dense stands of secondary vegetation at the northern end of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela. It is named for its extraordinary bill, which curves upwards. Until 2007, the bird was almost unknown in life and apart from earlier specimens it had only been seen in life once at an army ant swarm in Colombia in 1965.

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Easily confused with

Rondonia BushbirdClytoctantes atrogularisThe Rondonia bushbird is 16 to 18.5 cm (6.3 to 7.3 in) long and weighs about 31 to 36 g (1.1 to 1.3 oz).

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