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Necklaced Spinetail (Synallaxis stictothorax)

Order: Passeriformes | Family: Furnariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Piura, Peru

necklaced_spinetail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Piura, Peru

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Chirinos, Cajamarca

necklaced_spinetail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southwest Ecuador


Identification & Behavior: ~12.5 cm (5 in).  The Necklaced Spinetail has a brown mantle and crown. The tail is mostly rufous (maculata) or rufous with dusky central feathers (Chinchipensis).  The folded wing is mostly rufous. It has white superciliary and throat. The breast and belly are whitish heavily streaked with dusky. It forages in the understory of scrub habitats, sparse dry and semi-deciduous woodland in the northwestern lowlands and part of the Marañon Drainage. Its range does not overlap with the larger and very similar Great Spinetail.

Status: The Necklaced Spinetail is common and widespread in northwestern lowlands generally below 600 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in the middle portion of the Marañon Drainage. The Necklaced Spinetail also occurs in Ec.

Name in Spanish: Cola-Espina Acollarado.

Sub-species: Necklaced Spinetail (Synallaxis stictothorax maculata), Lawrence, 1872.  extreme SW Ecuador (S Loja) and NW Peru (Tumbes, Piura, Lambayeque, La Libertad).
(Synallaxis stictothorax chinchipensis), Chapman, 1925.  NW Peru (Marañón Valley in Cajamarca).

Meaning of Name: Synallaxis: Gr. sunallaxeos, sunallaxis = exchange. stictothorax: Gr. stiktos= spotted and thorax, thorakos= breastplate.

See more of the Family Furnariidae  peru aves

Distribution Mapnecklaced spinetail

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References:

    • 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.