Xenops, a genus in the South American bird family Furnariidae, the ovenbirds.
They are small birds with a longish tail, a laterally flattened bill with an upturned tip (except in the Slender-billed Xenops), brown back and buff or rufous wing stripe. They forage for insects on bark, rotting stumps or bare twigs, moving mechanically in all directions on the trunk like a woodcreeper, but without using the tail as a prop.Together with the distinct Great Xenops (Megaxenops parnaguae), this genus forms the tribe Xenopini in the woodcreeper and xenops subfamily Dendrocolaptinae.
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