Listen to the Slender-billed miner
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About the Slender-billed miner
The Slender-billed miner is a bird in the family Furnariidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults weigh around 35 g.
What does the Slender-billed miner sound like?
Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once. Songs tend to be long and patterned and are used to hold territory and attract a mate; calls are short signals for contact, alarm and flight.
The recordings here are labelled as flight song and flight call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The slender-billed miner (Geositta tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the subfamily Sclerurinae, the leaftossers and miners, of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Chestnut-winged hookbill
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Pale-legged hornero
Furnarius leucopus
Brown-capped tit-spinetail
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Sharp-tailed streamcreeper
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Elegant woodcreeper
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Ruddy foliage-gleaner
Clibanornis rubiginosus
Rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner
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Lesser hornero
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Orange-fronted plushcrown
Metopothrix aurantiaca
Scaly-throated foliage-gleaner
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Frequently asked questions
What does a Slender-billed miner sound like?
You can hear 3 recordings of the Slender-billed miner on this page, including its flight song and flight call. Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once.
Is the Slender-billed miner endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Slender-billed miner as “least concern”.
What family does the Slender-billed miner belong to?
The Slender-billed miner (Geositta tenuirostris) belongs to the family Furnariidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Flight call · Cotopaxi: above Angamarca, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Flight song · Cotopaxi: above Angamarca, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Flight song · Cotopaxi: above Angamarca, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q258508 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Slender-billed miner – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Tor Egil Høgsås derivative work: Berichard ( talk ) – CC BY 2.0