Streaked Xenops Xenops rutilus / rutilans

Streaked Xenops Xenops rutilus
(aka Xenops rutilans)

Brazilian name: Bico-virado-carijó

Streaked Xenops, Camacan, Bahia, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image

Brazil and Ecuador

The Streaked Xenops is distributed from Costa Rica and Panama into South America along the foothills of the Andes and eastwards to Trinidad and from the southern Amazon Basin into northern Argentina, Paraguay and southern Brazil. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.

Streaked Xenops, Tamandaré, Pernambuco, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image

It is found in a variety of forest and woodland types from humid to semi-arid and up to about 2,500 metres in the Andes and Central America.

It is similar to White-throated Xenops X. minutus but is streaked below and on the mantle.

Streaked Xenops, Baeza, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image

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