Chestnut-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes albidiventris)

Identification & Behavior: ~18 cm (7 in). The Chestnut-winged Cinclodes has a brown mantle and crown with a whitish supercilium. The folded wing is patterned with shades of rufous, brown, and dusky. The unmarked mantle contrasts with the patterned wing. It has a chestnut band on the wing. The throated is pale. The underparts are brown freckled on the breast with pale or brown spots. It has white tips on the outer tail feathers. It forages in open areas with short grass and sparse shrubs. It is similar to the Cream-winged Cinclodes but it shows a chestnut wing band instead of a pale brown wing band in the Cream-winged Cinclodes. The ranges of these two Cinclodes are not known to overlap.

Status: The Chestnut-winged Cinclodes is fairly common but restricted to extreme northwest Peru in Piura and Cajamarca. It also occurs in Co and Ec.

Name in Spanish: Churrete de Ala Castaña.

Sub-species: Chestnut-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes albidiventris albidiventris), P. L. Sclater, 1860.

Meaning of Name: Cinclodes: Gr. kinklos= unknown waterside bird and oides= resembling. albidiventris: L. albus= white and venter, ventris= belly.

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