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The adult white-throated spadebill is 3.8 inches (9.7 cm) long, weighs 0.33 oz (9.4 g), and has large eyes and a very short tail. The large head is distinctively marked, with a long yellowish supercilium, blackish ear coverts, yellow eyering, and a black stripe down each side of the
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The deep cup nest is made of dead grass and plant fibres and placed low in a sapling. The typical clutch is two yellow-tinged white eggs with a rufous wreath.
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than it was believed in the 20th century. It is not rare in its wide range, and thus not considered a threatened species by the
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891:IUCN Red List least concern species
460:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
615:A guide to the birds of Costa Rica
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380:undergrowth
332:to western
271:Joseph Smit
257:Description
885:Categories
863:Xeno-canto
579:, London.
528:References
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416:Clusiaceae
326:Costa Rica
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