Order: Passeriformes | Family: Furnariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown |Loc. San Marcos, Cajamarca
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown |Loc. San Marcos, Cajamarca
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown |Loc. San Marcos, Cajamarca
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown |Loc. San Marcos, Cajamarca
Identification & Behavior: ~18.5 cm (7.2 in). The Great Spinetail has an olive-brown mantle, crown, and tail. The wing is also rufous-brown with rufous primary wing coverts. It has buffy-white superciliary and throat. The breast and belly are grayish heavily streaked with white. It forages in the understory of dry and semi-deciduous forests in the upper Marañon Drainage. Its range does not overlap with the smaller and very similar Necklaced Spinetail.
Status: Endemic. The Great Spinetail is uncommon in the upper Marañon Drainage at elevations ranging between 2150-2800 m.
Name in Spanish: Cola-Espina Grande.
Sub-species: Great Spinetail (Synallaxis hypochondriaca), (Salvin), 1895.
Meaning of Name: Synallaxis: Gr. sunallaxeos, sunallaxis = exchang. hypochondriaca: Gr. hupokhondrion= abdomen. Hupokhondriakos= of the abdomen.
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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.