Gray-flanked Cinclodes
Cinclodes oustaleti
Fairly common in the high Andes of central Chile and adjacent Argentina, where found at bogs, lakeshores, and along streams, usually with rocky slopes nearby. Migrates in winter to coast, where it occurs on rocky beaches. Relatively small and sprightly, often flicking wings and cocking its tail strongly, unlike the larger Dark-bellied and Seaside Cinclodes, which occur alongside in winter. Dark-bellied has bolder white head stripes and gray flanks (flanks brown on Gray-flanked!). Told from Buff-winged Cinclodes by colder plumage tones and white-streaked breast.
识别特征
The grey-flanked cinclodes is 17 to 18 cm (6.7 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 22 to 31 g (0.78 to 1.1 oz). It is a small cinclodes with a medium-length slightly decurved bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a buff supercilium with speckles at its front, blackish brown lores and ear coverts, and a whitish malar area with dark scallops. Their crown is dark grayish brown and their upperparts rich dark brown. Their wings are also rich dark brown, with a whitish bend, tawny-rufous and blackish brown primary coverts, and some rufous across the base of the flight feathers. Their tail is blackish brown with dull rufous tips on the outer feathers. Their throat is white with dark scallops at its base and their breast dull dark gray-brown with pale spots on its upper part that become streaks below. Their belly is paler and browner than the breast and has a white center, and their flanks and undertail coverts are rich dark brown with some whitish feather tips. Their iris is dark brown to black, their bill blackish or blackish horn, and their legs and feet blackish brown. Subspecies C. o. hornensis is less richly colored than the nominate, with darker gray upperparts and grayer (less brown) underparts. C. o. baeckstroemii is like the nominate with the addition of a rufous tinge on the sides, flanks, and undertail coverts.
分类信息
The grey-flanked cinclodes is closely related to Olrog's cinclodes (C. olrogi). It has three subspecies, the nominate C. o. oustaleti (Scott, 1900), C. o. hornensis (Dabbene, 1917), and C. o. baeckstroemii (Lönnberg, 1921).
- 学名
- Cinclodes oustaleti
- 命名信息
- Scott, WED, 1900
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Furnariidae
- 属
- Cinclodes
分布与栖息地
The nominate subspecies of the grey-flanked cinclodes is found in mainland South America, in Chile from the Antofagasta Region and in western Argentina from Mendoza Province, in both countries south to the Strait of Magellan. Subspecies C. o. hornensis is found on Chile's Desolación Island and on Chilean and Argentine Tierra del Fuego and the Cape Horn Archipelago. C. o. baeckstroemii is found only on Alejandro Selkirk Island in Chile's Juan Fernández Archipelago.<p>The grey-flanked cinclodes inhabits open grassy and rocky landscapes, and in mountains is often found near streams. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 4,200 m (13,800 ft).
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
行为
The grey-flanked cinclodes is mostly a year-round resident in most of its range, though with movement to lower elevations in winter. Subspecies C. o. hornensis is partially migratory, with some individuals moving north onto the mainland after the breeding season.<p>The grey-flanked cinclodes feeds on arthropods and is assumed to eat other invertebrates as well. It forages singly or in pairs, gleaning prey from the ground, mud, and rocks.<p>The grey-flanked cinclodes breeds in the austral spring and summer, including at least October. It is assumed to be monogamous. It nests in a burrow at the end of a tunnel it excavates in an earth bank, often a streamside one, and floors the nest chamber with plant fibers and hair. The clutch size is two eggs. The incubation period, time to fledging, and details of parental care are not known.<p>The grey-flanked cinclodes' song is "a fast dry twittery trill rising in pitch, introduced by a few single notes", and its call is "a dry 'tsick' ".
保护状况
Population trend: declining.
- 种群趋势
- declining
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