Order
Passeriformes
Family
Furnariidae
Genus
Geositta
 
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Thick-billed Miner Geositta crassirostris

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Tom Johnson
Version: 1.0 — Published February 11, 2011

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Introduction

The Thick-billed Miner is a terrestrial furnariid endemic to the southern Peruvian Andes. Found on western Andean slopes between 600 and 3000 meters in elevation, the species prefers dry, rocky areas with sparse vegetation. A large miner, it has a heavy, decurved bill that is black with a pale-based mandible, dark gray-brown upperparts with a tan eyering and supercilium, pale buff upperparts feather edging, rufous bases to the flight feathers and tail, and buff-white underparts. Inconspicuous as it walks along the ground, Thick-billed Miner is most easily located by its strident, ringing calls and song.

Distribution of the Thick-billed Miner - Range Map
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  • Year-round
  • Migration
  • Breeding
  • Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Thick-billed Miner

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and T. Johnson (2011). Thick-billed Miner (Geositta crassirostris), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.thbmin1.01