Olrog's Cinclodes
Cinclodes olrogi
Large terrestrial Furnariid endemic to rocky hillsides and rushing streams of the Sierra de Comenchingones in central Argentina. From similar White-winged Cinclodes by Olrogs’ light brown (not white) bases to primary coverts, and darker chest contrasting markedly with white throat.
Identification
Olrog's cinclodes is about 17 cm (6.7 in) long and weighs 24 to 32 g (0.85 to 1.1 oz). It is a small cinclodes with a medium-length slightly decurved bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a white supercilium, and blackish brown lores and ear coverts. Their crown is blackish brown and their upperparts dark gray-brown with a chestnut tinge. Their wings are a darker gray-brown with a wide white band across the base of the flight feathers. Their tail is dark gray-brown with dull rufous tips on the outer feathers. Their throat and breast are white with some dark scaling on the latter. The rest of their underparts are pale dull brown.
Taxonomy
Olrog cinclodes' English name and specific epithet honor the Swedish-Argentine biologist Claes C. Olrog.<p>One of the authors who first described Olrog's cinclodes (Nores) later treated it as a subspecies of what was then called the bar-winged cinclodes (C. fuscus sensu lato). (In a three-way split of the bar-winged that began in about 2009, C. fuscus was renamed to the present buff-winged cinclodes to avoid confusion with the previous much more complex species.) The species' namesake Olrog and several other authors maintained that it was more closely related to the gray-flanked cinclodes (C. oustaleti), and this has been confirmed by genetic data.<p>Olrog's cinclodes is monotypic.
- Scientific name
- Cinclodes olrogi
- Authority
- Nores & Yzurieta, 1979
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae
- Genus
- Cinclodes
Range and habitat
Olrog's cinclodes is found in north-central Argentina. It occurs in the Sierras Grandes and Sierras de Comechingones of Córdoba Province and the Sierras de San Luis in adjoining San Luis Province. It inhabits open grassy landscapes, many of them rocky, and it usually is found near streams and lakes. In elevation it ranges between 1,600 and 2,800 m (5,200 and 9,200 ft).
- Migration
- Resident species
Behavior
Migration pattern: Resident species.
Conservation
Population trend: declining.
- Population trend
- declining
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Distribution
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