Ash-browed Spinetail

Cranioleuca curtata

Fairly small rufous-brown bird found on the east slope of the Andes from Colombia to Bolivia. Wings and tail are bright rufous, contrasting with duller brown body and head. Note rufous cap and slightly paler eyebrow. Compare with Red-faced Spinetail, which has entirely rufous cheek and crown. Look for singles or pairs in the middle levels and canopy of montane forest and edge from around 900 to 2,000 m. Forages with mixed-species flocks, hitching along branches and probing into patches of moss and clumps of dead leaves.

识别特征

The ash-browed spinetail is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 14 to 21 g (0.49 to 0.74 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a supercilium that varies from bold whitish to obscure dingy gray. The rest of their face is dull brownish with some pale streaks on the ear coverts. Their forehead is brown with some reddish chestnut, their crown reddish chestnut, and their back rich brown that becomes increasingly reddish by the uppertail coverts. Their wings are reddish chestnut; their flight feathers are slightly paler with dark fuscous tips. Their tail is dark reddish chestnut; it is graduated and the feathers sometimes lack barbs on their tips. Their chin is very pale brownish gray, their throat browner with light streaking, and their underparts dull browish with slightily richer brown flanks. Their iris is chestnut to brown, their maxilla dark brown to blackish, their mandible pinkish (usually with a dark tip), and their legs and feet olive-greenish to mustard-yellow. Juveniles have a strong supercilium, a mostly brown crown with some chestnut, and ochraceous rufous underparts. Subspecies C. c. cisandina has darker and more chestnut crown, wings, and tail than the nominate, and also a darker brown back and darker grayish tones on the underparts. C. c. debilis is similar to cisandina but overall paler with a chestnut forehead.

分类信息

The ash-browed spinetail has three subspecies, the nominate C. c. curtata (Sclater, PL, 1870), C. c. cisandina (Taczanowski, 1882), and C. c. debilis (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1906). Subspecies C. c. cisandina had originally been described as a separate species.

学名
Cranioleuca curtata
命名信息
(Sclater, PL, 1870)
Passeriformes
Furnariidae
Cranioleuca

分布与栖息地

The nominate subspecies of the ash-browed spinetail is the northernmost. It is found on the west slope of Colombia's Eastern Andes between the departments of Santander and Huila. Subspecies C. c. cisandina is found on the eastern slope of the Andes from Caquetá Department in Colombia south through eastern Ecuador and into Peru at least as far as the Department of Cuzco. C. c. debilis is found from Peru's departments of Ayacucho and Cuzco south to Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia.<p>The ash-browed spinetail inhabits humid foothill and lower subtropical forest and montane evergreen forest. In elevation it ranges between 800 and 2,300 m (2,600 and 7,500 ft) in Colombia and mostly between 900 and 1,700 m (3,000 and 5,600 ft) in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It occurs locally as low as 650 m (2,100 ft) and as high as 2,500 m (8,200 ft).

迁徙
Resident species

行为

Migration pattern: Resident species.

保护状况

Population trend: declining.

种群趋势
declining

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