Order
Passeriformes
Family
Furnariidae
Genus
Xenops
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Plain Xenops Xenops minutus

Sara Decker
Version: 1.0 — Published July 5, 2013

Demography and Populations

Introduction

Total population of Plain Xenops is estimated to number 5,000,000 – 50,000,000 individuals (BirdLife International 2013). Deforestation models predict that Plain Xenops will lose 15-16.3% of suitable habitat over 10 years, resulting in a population decline of up to 25% (Bird et al. 2012; BirdLife International).

Robinson (2001) analyzed long term effects of habitat isolation on avian species occupying Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Plain Xenops island populations increased 100% from 1970 to the mid-1990s.

Estimated densities (Remsen 2003, from Terborgh et al. 1990 and Thiollay 1994):

12-30 birds/km2 in transitional forests in southeastern Peru

8-13/km2 in terra firme forest in French Guiana

Recommended Citation

Decker, S. (2013). Plain Xenops (Xenops minutus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.plaxen1.01
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