Endangered
Recurve-billed bushbird
Clytoctantes alixii
Recurve-billed bushbird is a perching bird in the family Thamnophilidae (order Passeriformes) — Clytoctantes alixii, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Its large bill is pale horn. It is laterally compressed and the mandible is upturned. The sexes have different plumage. Adult males are generally dark gray, with a white patch between their shoulders.
The recurve-billed bushbird is 16 to 17 cm (6.3 to 6.7 in) long.
Range and habitat
The species inhabits dense undergrowth in the understory and edges of evergreen forest, clearings in the forest that are regenerating, and nearby secondary forest. In elevation it ranges between 300 and 1,200 m (1,000 and 3,900 ft) in Venezuela. In Colombia it is mostly found between 200 and 1,000 m (700 and 3,300 ft) but occurs as high as 1,150 m (3,800 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It has been observed seeking prey by pecking open and pulling strips from stems, and at least once has been seen attending an army ant swarm. The recurve-billed bushbird has been reported to breed in April and May in the western part of its range but breeding may start as early as January.
Nothing else is known about its breeding biology.
In crisis
Recurve-billed bushbird is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Recurve-billed bushbird, Wikidata item Q956116. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
