Hudson's Canastero
Asthenes hudsoni
Distinctive, heavily streaked ovenbird with a long spiky tail. Note the thin black streaks on the flanks. Found deep inside stands of tall grass and sedges near marshy areas, including in sand dune systems. The song is an ascending trill.
识别特征
Hudsons' canastero is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long. It is one of several streaked canasteros that have drab plumages with dark stripes on their upperparts. It has a long bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have narrow pale buff supercilium on an otherwise sandy brownish face. Their crown and upperparts are sandy brown with conspicuous blackish and silvery streaks. Their wing's greater coverts are dark brown with whitish tips and their median and lesser coverts dark brown with wide rufous edges. Their flight feathers are dark fuscous with whitish-tawny bases on the primaries and tawny-rufous bases on the secondaries. Their tail is dusky with conspicuous silvery buff edges to the feathers. Their chin is whitish, often with a yellow tinge and sometimes an orange-rufous one. Their throat, breast, and belly are buff that is richer on their sides, flanks, and undertail coverts. Their flanks have blackish streaks. Their iris is light brown, their maxilla fuscous black, their mandible pale horn to gray with a blackish tip, and their legs and feet light brownish. Juveniles have blackish-brown streaks on their breast and sides.
分类信息
Hudson's canastero is monotypic. It and the similar austral canastero (A. anthoides) are sister species.<p>The English name and specific epithet of Hudson's canastero honor the Argentine-British naturalist and author William Henry Hudson.
- 学名
- Asthenes hudsoni
- 命名信息
- (Sclater, PL, 1874)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Furnariidae
- 属
- Asthenes
分布与栖息地
Hudson's canastero is found in the southeastern part of far southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state, and Uruguay, and in eastern Argentina from Santa Fe and Entre Ríos provinces south to Buenos Aires Province. It inhabits temperate grasslands usually near marshes, both fresh and brackish. It favors areas with tall grasses such as Paspalum quadrifarium and sedges interspaced with short turf or bare ground. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 950 m (3,100 ft).
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
行为
Although traditionally considered a year-round resident throughout its range, a recent study revealed that Hudson's canastero is a migratory species, with breeding populations mostly restricted to the pampas of Buenos Aires and an isolated population in Rio Grande do Sul. Records further north in Argentina and all records in Uruguay correspond to wintering birds.<p>Hudson's canastero feeds on adult and larval arthropods. It forages singly or in pairs, gleaning its prey the ground and low vegetation.<p>Hudson's canastero breeds during the austral spring and summer, between at least October and December. It is thought to be monogamous. It builds a well-concealed dome or spherical nest of grasses and twigs over a hollow in the ground or very near it in a clump of grass. It lines the nest with feathers, hair, and small twigs. The clutch size is two to five eggs but usually three or four. The incubation period, time to fledging, and details of parental care are not known.<p>The song of Hudson's canastero is "a short ascending trill". Its call has not been described.
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- declining
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