Order: Passeriformes | Family: Furnariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Mantaro Valley
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Mantaro Valley
Status: Endemic. The rufous-crowned subspecies of the Marcapata Spinetail occurs on the east slope of the southeast Andes. The white-crowned subspecies is confined to the Mantaro Valley and parts of the Cordillera Vilcabamba in Cuzco generally at elevations ranging between 2400-3350 m.
Name in Spanish: Cola-Espina de Marcapata.
Sub-species: Marcapata Spinetail (Cranioleuca marcapatae weskei), Remsen, 1984. Vilcabamba Mts, in SE Peru (Cuzco); recently recorded also in Junín and NE Ayacucho.
(Cranioleuca marcapatae marcapatae), J. T. Zimmer, 1935. Vilcanota and Carabaya ranges (Cuzco).
Meaning of Name: Cranioleuca: Gr. kranion= skull, head and leukos= white. marcapatae: Originating from or associated with Marcapata, Cuzco, Peru.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.