Recurvebill

Not to be confused with Recurve-billed bushbird.
Recurvebill
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Subfamily: Furnariinae
Genus: Syndactyla
Reichenbach, 1853
Species

Syndactyla striatus
Syndactyla ucayalae

The recurvebills are two species of Furnariid birds from the genus Syndactyla . They are restricted to humid forests in the South American countries of Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. Their common name refers to the peculiar bill-shape, which, at least in the case of the larger-billed Peruvian recurvebill, is an adaption for manipulating bamboo stems. Both species are overall rufescent brown. The SACC reclassified the recurvebills from the genus Simoxenops to Syndactyla based on studies from Dewberry (2011).

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