Microbates is a bird genus in the family Polioptilidae.

Its name means "small creeper" or "walker".

Some species regularly and some often join mixed-species foraging flocks.

Microbates's song is a "a series of soft, thin notes, peeee or eeeeea" or "a series of soft, clear, plaintive notes, teeeeea or teeeéuw" It contains the following species:

This Polioptilidae-related article is a stub.