This is a large family of small to medium-sized birds, ranging from 9 to 35 centimetres in length. The ovenbirds are a diverse group of insectivores which get their name from the elaborate, vaguely "oven-like" clay nests built by the Horneros, although most other ovenbirds build stick nests or nest in tunnels or clefts in rock. Furnariid nests are always constructed with a cover. While individial species often are habitat specialists, species of this family can be found in virtually any Neotropical habitat, ranging from city parks inhabited by Rufous Horneros, to tropical Amazonian lowlands by many species of Foliage-gleaners, to temperate barren Andean highlands inhabited by several species of Miners. There are even two species, the Seaside and the Surf Cinclodes,which are associated with rocky coasts.
Ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, of family Parulidae is unrelated to birds in the ovenbird family, Furnariidae. For both cases, the name derives from the oven-like nests that are created.
Foliage-gleaners and allies
Genus Anabacerthia
Foliage-gleaner,_Montane Anabacerthia striaticollis Found: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
The Montane Foliage-gleaner has rufous-brown upperparts; ochre-brown underparts; long rufous tail; whitish throat; pale eye-ring;
Image by: 1) Ramiro Ramirez 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3) Scott_Loarie
Foliage-gleaner,_Ochre-breasted Anabacerthia lichtensteini Found: Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
Image by: 1, 2) Claudio Timm 3) Nick Athanas - Brazil 4) Carlos_Henrique
Foliage-gleaner,_Rufous-tailed Anabacerthia ruficaudata Found: South America
The Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner has mainly brown plumage; paler supercilium, underparts; rufous tail.
Image by: 1) Jorge_Cueva 2) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador
Foliage-gleaner,_Scaly-throated Anabacerthia variegaticeps Found: Mexico, Central America, Columbia, Ecuador
The Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner has distinct buffy eye-rings; buffy eye-stripe; pale throat. Not all subspecies have a scaly appearing throat.
Image by: 1) Larry Thompson 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3) Michael Woodruff - Ecuador
Foliage-gleaner,_White-browed Anabacerthia amaurotis Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Image by: 1) Dave_Curtis - Brazil
Genus Anabazenops
Foliage-gleaner,_Dusky-cheeked also Crested Foliage-gleaner Anabazenops dorsalis Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
The Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleener is usually found near bamboo thickets, hence an alternative name is Bamboo Foliage-gleaner.
Image by: 1) Joe Tobias
Foliage-gleaner,_White-collared Anabazenops fuscus Found: southeast Brazil
The White-collared Foliage-gleener is usually found near bamboo thickets. It has brown upperparts; rufous tail; white supercilium; broad white collar; ivory colored bill.
Image by: 1) Hector Bottai 2) Ben Tavener 3) Nick Athanas - Brazil
Genus Ancistrops - 1 species
Hookbill,_Chestnut-winged Ancistrops strigilatus Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
The Chestnut-winged Hookbill has chestnut wings, tail; pale supercilium; streaked face, mantle; short tail; thick neck.
The song is a loud trill that can go on for over half a minute.
Image by: 1) Joao Quental 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Genus Automolus
Foliage-gleaner,_Brown-rumped Automolus melanopezus Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
The Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner has dull brown upperparts; tawny underparts; dark brown facemask; red eyes; cinnamon-rust tail.
Image by: 1) Joe Tobias 
Foliage-gleaner,_Buff-throated Automolus ochrolaemus Found: Mexico, Central America, northern South America
The Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner has dull brown upperparts; buffy underparts; rufous tail; bold pale eye-ring.
Image by: 1) Kent Nickell 2) Jorge Montejo - Mexico 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador_in_Costa_Rica.jpg){kind=link}
Foliage-gleaner,_Chestnut-crowned Automolus rufipileatus Found: South America
Image by: 1) Josheph Smit 2) Pinned
Foliage-gleaner,_Olive-backed Automolus infuscatus Found: South America
The Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner has olive-brown upperparts; thin white eye-ring; gray underparts.
Image by:
1) Joe Tobias
Foliage-gleaner,_Para Automolus paraensis Found: Brazil
Image by: 1) Hector_Bottai
Foliage-gleaner,_Pernambuco Automolus lammi Found: northeast Brazil
The Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner has brown upperparts; white eye-ring, throat; buffy underparts; rufous tail.
Similar to: Pernambuco Foiage-gleaner. Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner has been considered a subspecis of White-eyed Foliage-gleaner. They have different vocalizations. Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner found at eastern tip of Brazil; White-eyed Foliage-gleaner found south of there.
Image by: 1) Caio BezerraSimilar to: Pernambuco Foiage-gleaner. Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner has been considered a subspecis of White-eyed Foliage-gleaner. They have different vocalizations. Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner found at eastern tip of Brazil; White-eyed Foliage-gleaner found south of there.
Foliage-gleaner,_White-eyed Automolus leucophthalmus Found: South America
The White-eyed Foliage-gleaner has brown upperparts; white eye-ring, throat; buffy underparts; rufous tail.
Similar to: Pernambuco Foiage-gleaner. Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner has been considered a subspecis of White-eyed Foliage-gleaner. They have different vocalizations. Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner found at eastern tip of Brazil; White-eyed Foliage-gleaner found south of there.
Image by: 1, 2)
Dario Sanches in Piraju, São Paulo, BrazilSimilar to: Pernambuco Foiage-gleaner. Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner has been considered a subspecis of White-eyed Foliage-gleaner. They have different vocalizations. Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner found at eastern tip of Brazil; White-eyed Foliage-gleaner found south of there.
Woodhaunter,_Striped Automolus subulatus Found: Central America, South America
The Striped Woodhauter has blurred steaking on head, breast, back; buffy throat. The Striped Woodhauter is sometimes split. depending on the side of the Andes, into species Eastern Woodhaunter and Western Woodhauter
Image by: 1) Hector_Bottai - Brazili 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
1) Eastern Woodhauter 2) Western Woodhauter
Genus Cichlocolaptes - 1 species
Treehunter,_Pale-browed Cichlocolaptes leucophrus Found: Brazil
The Pale-browed Treehunter has brown upperparts with pale streaking on mantle; pale buff supercilium; heavily streaked underparts.
Image by: 1) Hector Bottai 2, 3) Claudio Timm 4) Nick Athanas - Brazil
Genus Clibanornis
Groundcreeper,_Canebreak Clibanornis dendrocolaptoides Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
The Canebreak Groundcreeper has dark brown upperparts; white throat with scaling; white supercilium.
Image by: 1, 2) Marcel Holyoak - Brazil 3) Claudio_Timm
Foliage-gleaner,_Chestnut-capped also Henna-capped Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rectirostris Found: Brazil
The Chestnut-capped Foliage-gleaner has rufous plumage; yellow eyes.
Image by: 1) Carlos Henrique 2) Nick Athanas - Brazil 3) Hector_Bottai
Foliage-gleaner,_Henna-hooded Clibanornis erythrocephalus Found: Ecuador, Peru
The Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner has reddish-brown upperparts; orange neck; orange-red tail; gray underparts.
Image by: 1) Enicurus 2) Nick Athanas - Peru
Foliage-gleaner,_Ruddy Clibanornis rubiginosus Found: Mexico, Central America, South America
The Ruddy Forest-gleaner is found in several disjunct (isolated) regions and may be split into more than one species. It coloring and vocalization vaires by subspecies. In general, it is chestnut-brown upperparts; olive-brown underparts.
Image by: 1) Andres Cuervo - Columbia 2) Andres_Cuervo 3) Jorge Montejo - Mexico
Foliage-gleaner,_Santa Marta Clibanornis rufipectus Found: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia
The Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner was previously considered a subspecies of Ruddy Forest-gleaner.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Columbia
Genus Heliobletus - 1 species
Treehunter, Sharp-billed Heliobletus contaminatus Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Image by: 1) Opisska - Brazil 2) Claudio Timm
Genus Megaxenops - 1 species
Xenops, Great Megaxenops parnaguae Found: northeast Brazil
The Great Xenops has mainly rufous-orange plumage; darker wings; white throat. It has superficial similarities to the "true" xenopses of the genus Xenops.
Image by: 1) Joao Quental
Genus Philydor
Foliage-gleaner,_Alagoas Philydor novaesi Found: Brazil
The Alagoas Foliage-gleaner tiny is found mainly in fragmented forests above the town of Murici in Alagoas.
Image by: 1, 2) Ciro Albano - northeast Brazil
Foliage-gleaner,_Black-capped Philydor atricapillus Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
The Black-capped Foliage-gleaner tiny has mainly rufous plumage; black cap; pale face with black line to rear of eye; pale eye-ring.
Image by: 1) Dario Sanches - Brazil 2) Hecotr Bottai - Brazil 3) Nick_Athanas - Brazil
Foliage-gleaner,_Buff-fronted Philydor rufum Found: Costa Rica, Panama, South America
The Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner has reddish-brown wings, tail; mainly grayish underparts; dark eye-line.
Image by: 1) Dario Sanches - Brazil 2) Claudio Timm 3) Nick Athanas - Equador
Foliage-gleaner,_Chestnut-winged Philydor erythropterum Found: Amazon region of South America
The Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner has grayish-brown upperparts; chestnut (rufous) wings, tail; buffy underparts.
Image by: 1) Dave Wendelken - Ecuador 2) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador
Foliage-gleaner,_Cinnamon-rumped Philydor pyrrhodes Found: South America
Image by: 1) Joe Tobias - Bolivia
Foliage-gleaner,_Rufous-rumped Philydor erythrocercum Found: Amazon region of South America
The Slaty-winged Foliage-Gleaner was formerly a subspecies of the Rufous-rumped Foliage-Gleaner.
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Brazil
Foliage-gleaner,_Slaty-winged Philydor fuscipenne Found: Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama
The Slaty-winged Foliage-Gleaner was formerly a subspecies of the Rufous-rumped Foliage-Gleaner.
Image by: 1) Joseph Smit 2) Pinned 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Genus Syndactyla
Foliage-gleaner,_Buff-browed Syndactyla rufosuperciliata Found: South America
The Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner has brown upperparts with rufous tail; brownish-olive underparts with white streaking; thick bill; whitish rear eye-stripe; white throat.
Image by: 1, 2, 3)
Cláudio Timm - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 4) Nick Athanas - Brazil
Foliage-gleaner,_Guttulate Syndactyla guttulata Found: Venezuela
The Guttulate Foliage-gleaner has brown upperparts with white streaked mantle, cheeks; white-strekaed underparts; white throat; some rufous on tail.
Image by: 1) Jennens 2) Pinned
Foliage-gleaner,_Lineated Syndactyla subalaris Found: South America
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2) Jose Loaiza
Foliage-gleaner,_Peruvian Syndactyla ucayalae Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
Image by: 1) Pinned
Foliage-gleaner,_Rufous-mantled also Planalto Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla dimidiata Found: Brazil. Paraguay
Image by: 1) Hector Bottai - Brazil 2) Claudio_Timm
Foliage-gleaner,_Rufous-necked Syndactyla ruficollis Found: Ecuador, Peru
Thr Rufous-necked Foliage-gleaner has brown upperparts; paler rufous neck, supercilium; rufous wings, tail; buffy throat; dull underparts.
Image by: 1) Tony_Castro - Ecuador 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Foliage-gleaner,_White-throated also Tepui Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla roraimae Found: Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela
The White-throated Foliage-gleaner has rufous-brown upperparts; darker crown, ear coverts; white throat, supercilium; paler brown underparts.
Image by: 1) JA Jacomelli - Venezuela
Recurvebill,_Bolivian Syndactyla striata also Syndactyla striatus Found: Bolivia
The Bolivian Recurvebill has mainly rufous-brown plumage; pale eye-ring; buff rear eye-line; up-curved bill.
Image by: 1, 2) Joe Tobias 
Genus Thripadectes
Treehunter,_Black-billed Thripadectes melanorhynchus Found: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Treehunter, Buff-throated also Rufous-backed Treehunter Thripadectes scrutator Found: Bolivia, Peru
Image by: 1) Gianfranco Gomez
Treehunter,_Flammulated Thripadectes flammulatus Found: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
The Flammulated Treehunter has heavily streaked plumage.
Image by: 1) Arley_Vargas 2) NBII Image Gallery 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Treehunter, Streak-breasted Thripadectes rufobrunneus Found: Costa Rica, Panama
The Streak-breasted Treehunter has brown upperparts; brownish streaked throat, upper-breast; black-scaled dark crown.
Image by: 1, 2) Dominic Sherony - Costa Rica
Treehunter,_Streak-capped Thripadectes virgaticeps Found: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
The Streak-capped Treehunter has rufous-brown upperparts; streaked cap.
Image by: 1, 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Treehunter,_Striped Thripadectes holostictus Found: South America
The Striped Treehunter has striping on the mantle and breast, but not on the belly.
Image by: 1) Felix Uribe - Columbia 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
Treehunter,_Uniform Thripadectes ignobilis Found: Columbia, Ecuador
The Unifom Treehunter has unstreaked reddish-brown plumage; small bill.
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2) Rohan van Twest - Columbia
