Junquero

Identificación

The wren-like rushbird is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 11 to 16 g (0.39 to 0.56 oz). It is a small furnariid whose plumage closely resembles that of the wholly unrelated marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris). It has a longish slightly decurved bill. The sexes' plumages are essentially alike though females are slightly paler than males. Adults of the nominate subspecies P. m. melanops have a wide buff supercilium, grayish lores, a dark brown band behind the eye, mottled dark brown ear coverts, and a buff malar area. Their crown is blackish with wide brown streaks. They have a buff-brown collar with few streaks. Their back is blackish with rich brown streaks and obvious white feather shafts. Their rump and uppertail coverts are also rich brown, with some blackish inclusions in the latter. Their tail's innermost pair of feathers are rich brown and the rest blackish brown with buffy to tawny tips; the last few centimeters of the innermost two pairs have bare shafts. Their wing coverts and wings are blackish; the former have wide chestnut tips and the latter chestnut and rufous edges that together form a wide band on the closed wing. Their throat is white, their breast and belly buffy whitish, their sides and flanks dull brown, and their undertail coverts a mix of tawny-buff and white. Their iris is brown to dark brown, their bill blackish to dark horn whose mandible sometimes has a paler base, and their legs and feet grayish horn. Juveniles are similar to adults but with narrow dark edges on their underparts' feathers.<p>Subspecies P. m. schoenobaenus is significantly larger than the nominate and has a longer bill. It also has brighter upperparts and whiter underparts. P. m. brunnescens has a paler but more heavily streaked crown than the nominate. Its back is browner, its wingband paler, and its underparts paler and duller. P. m. loaensis is similar to brunnescens but has a somewhat darker and more chestnut wingband, and darker rump, sides, and flanks.

Taxonomía

The wren-like rushbird is the only member of its genus and has these four subspecies:<p>The wren-like rushbird is genetically most closely related to the curve-billed reedhaunter (Limnornis curvirostris).

Nombre científico

Phleocryptes melanops

Autoridad

(Vieillot, 1817)

Orden

Passeriformes

Familia

Furnariidae

Género

Phleocryptes

Distribución y hábitat

The subspecies of the wren-like rushbird are found thus:<p>The wren-like rushbird inhabits freshwater and brackish marshes and the edges of lakes, all with emergent aquatic vegetation. It especially favors beds of Scirpus sedges. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 4,300 m (14,100 ft).

Migración

Migrantes completos

Comportamiento

Patrón migratorio: Migrantes completos.

Conservación

Tendencia poblacional: en declive.

Tendencia poblacional

en declive