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The slender-billed xenops is 10 to 11.5 cm (3.9 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 9 to 11 g (0.32 to 0.39 oz). Its namesake bill is wedge-shaped, and longer and thinner than those of other xenops. The sexes are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a blackish brown face with a dark brown crown that is spotted and streaked buff, a buffish white supercilium, and a pure white malar streak. Their back is rufescent brown with short, wide, elongated creamy buff spots on its upper part. Their rump and uppertail coverts are reddish rufous. Voice: The slender-billed xenops' song is a series of four or five notes variously described as "tseep" and "tsip".
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When to see the Slender-billed Xenops
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Slender-billed Xenops
The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Slender-billed Xenops
The slender-billed xenops is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
Northern Plain XenopsXenops mexicanusThe northern plain xenops is 11 to 13 cm (4.3 to 5.1 in) long.
Atlantic Plain XenopsXenops minutusThe Atlantic plain xenops is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs about 10 to 13 g (0.35 to 0.46 oz).
Amazonian Plain XenopsXenops genibarbisThe Amazonian plain xenops has a wedge-shaped, fairly stubby, and slightly upturned bill.
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