Order: Passeriformes | Family: Furnariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Lower Manu Road, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Oxapampa, Pasco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Cuzco, Peru | Napo Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Quillabamba, Cuzco
Status: The Azara’s Spinetail is common in montane forests of the east and west (Tumbes, Piura, and Cajamarca) slopes of the Andes at elevations ranging between 1250-3100 m. It also occurs in Co, Ec, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Cola-Espina de Azara.
Sub-species: Azara’s Spinetail (Synallaxis azarae media), Chapman, 1914. W & C Andes of Colombia S to Ecuador (S to Cotopaxi in W and to Zamora-Chinchipe in E), possibly also in N Peru (extreme NE Cajamarca).
(Synallaxis azarae ochracea), J. T. Zimmer, 1936. Andes of SW Ecuador (S from Guayas and S Chimborazo) and NW Peru (Tumbes S to Lambayeque).
(Synallaxis azarae fruticicola), Taczanowski, 1880. Marañón Valley in N Peru (Cajamarca S to La Libertad).
(Synallaxis azarae infumata), J. T. Zimmer, 1925. Andes of N & C Peru (Amazonas S to Junín).
(Synallaxis azarae urubambae), J. T. Zimmer, 1935. S Peru (Cuzco).
(Synallaxis azarae azarae), d’Orbigny, 1835. S Peru (Puno) S to C Bolivia (La Paz S to NW Santa Cruz).
Meaning of Name: Synallaxis: Gr. sunallaxeos, sunallaxis = exchange. azarae: In honor of Brig. Gen. Félix Manuel de Azara (1746-1821) Spanish Army, engineer, cartographer, boundary commissioner commanding the Paraguay-Brazil frontier 1781-1801, naturalist.

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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.