Piscuiz de Cory

Identificación

The ochre-browed thistletail is 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 15 to 18 g (0.53 to 0.63 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have an ochraceous supercilium on an otherwise darker face. Their forehead is dull ochraceous rufous, and their crown, back, rump, and tail are olive-brown. Their wings are a dull reddish brown. Their tail is long and deeply forked with few barbs at the feather ends that give a ragged appearance. Their chin has a tawny-rufous patch. Their throat and the rest of their underparts are pale gray-brown with a whitish center to the belly. Their iris is dark brown to gray-brown, their bill dark grayish brown with a pinkish base to the mandible, and their legs and feet bluish gray.

Taxonomía

The ochre-browed thistletail was long treated as a subspecies of the white-chinned thistletail (then Schizoeaca fuliginosa, now Asthenes fuliginosa) but was eventually separated as a species. They and several other species were in genus Schizoeaca but genetic data showed that the genus is embedded within Asthenes. The ochre-browed thistletail is monotypic.

Nombre científico

Asthenes coryi

Autoridad

(Berlepsch, 1888)

Orden

Passeriformes

Familia

Furnariidae

Género

Asthenes

Distribución y hábitat

The ochre-browed thistletail is found in the Andes of western Venezuela between the states of Trujillo and Táchira. It primarily inhabits páramo grasslands, taller páramo vegetation, the upper edge of cloudforest, and dense undergrowth at tree line. In elevation it mostly ranges between 3,500 and 4,100 m (11,500 and 13,500 ft) though it occurs in openings in cloudforest as low as 2,800 m (9,200 ft).

Migración

Especie residente

Comportamiento

Patrón migratorio: Especie residente.

Conservación

Tendencia poblacional: estable.

Tendencia poblacional

estable