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Slender-billed Miner

Geositta tenuirostris

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesGrasslandCavity nestSmall · 32 g
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 1
Photo: Tor Egil Høgsås derivative work: Berichard (talk) · CC BY 2.0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 2
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 3
Photo: Tor Egil Høgsås · CC BY 2.0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 4
Photo: Diego Carús · CC0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 5
Photo: Humber Alberto · CC BY 4.0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 6
Photo: Monics Paredes · CC BY 4.0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 7
Photo: Monics Paredes · CC BY 4.0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 8
Photo: Tor Egil Høgsås derivative work: Berichard (talk) · CC BY 2.0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 9
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Slender-billed Miner (Geositta tenuirostris), photo 10
Photo: Tor Egil Høgsås · CC BY 2.0

What the Slender-billed Miner sounds like

Sonogram of the Slender-billed Miner: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Flight call · Cotopaxi: above Angamarca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Slender-billed Miner: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Flight song · Cotopaxi: above Angamarca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Slender-billed Miner: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Flight song · Cotopaxi: above Angamarca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The slender-billed miner is a large member of its genus. It is 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 32 to 38 g (1.1 to 1.3 oz). The sexes are alike. The nominate subspecies has a pale buffy brownish face with a whitish supercilium, a dark brownish stripe behind the eye, and a vague darker "moustache". It has a dull brown crown with wavy streaks, dull grayish brown upperparts, and slightly paler rump and uppertail coverts. Its central pair of tail feathers are dull brown with darker ends. Voice: The slender-billed miner's display flight song is "a repetitive series of 'jit' or 'keek' notes". Its calls have been described as "keeeeek", "week, week", "chwea" and a nasal "kyeenh".

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When to see the Slender-billed Miner

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Slender-billed Miner

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Argentina Bolivia Ecuador

About the Slender-billed Miner

The slender-billed miner is a species of bird in the subfamily Sclerurinae, the leaftossers and miners, of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Greyish Miner (Geositta maritima) Greyish MinerGeositta maritimaThe greyish miner is a smallish member of its genus. Creamy-rumped Miner (Geositta isabellina) Creamy-rumped MinerGeositta isabellinaThe creamy-rumped miner is a medium-large member of its genus. Short-billed Miner (Geositta antarctica) Short-billed MinerGeositta antarcticaThe short-billed miner is a medium-size member of its genus.

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