Microbates

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Microbates
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Tawny-faced gnatwren (Microbates cinereiventris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Polioptilidae
Genus: Microbates
P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1873
Type species
Microbates torquatus [1]
P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1873

Microbates is a bird genus in the family Polioptilidae. Its name means "small creeper" or "walker". [2] [3]

Behavior

Feeding

They usually prey upon small arthropods. Some species regularly and some often join mixed-species foraging flocks.

Vocalization

Microbates's song is a "a series of soft, thin notes, peeee or eeeeea" or "a series of soft, clear, plaintive notes, teeeeea or teeeéuw"

Species

It contains the following species:

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References

  1. "Polioptilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. βάτης . Liddell, Henry George ; Scott, Robert ; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project: bátes, ‘one that treads or covers’.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. A & C Black. p. 254. ISBN   978-1-4081-2878-7. Gr. mikros small; batēs treader, walker [from bainō to tread].