Clytoctantes
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| Recurve-billed bushbird (Clytoctantes alixii) | |
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Clytoctantes
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Clytoctantes is a South American genus of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. Males are grey or black and females are mainly rufous. The stubby, hefty bill has a distinctly upcurved lower mandible and a straight culmen (a large version of the bills of the recurvebills), which possibly is a modification for opening bamboo stems in their search for insects. The two species were feared to be extinct or nearly so, until both were rediscovered in 2004.
Species
- Recurve-billed bushbird (Clytoctantes alixii)
- Rondônia bushbird (Clytoctantes atrogularis)
The name "bushbird" is shared with the rather similar, but smaller-billed black bushbird from the monotypic genus Neoctantes.
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