Scribble-tailed Canastero (Asthenes maculicauda)

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

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Pongo, Bolivia

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Pongo, Bolivia | Upper Manu Road, Cuzco

Identification & Behavior: ~17.5 cm (6.8 in). The Scribble-Tailed Canastero has heavily streaked upperparts. The underparts are also streaked but the throat and center of the underparts are brownish and largely unmarked. It has a rufous forehead but no orange chin patch. It forages in humid scrub and shrubs interspersed with bunch grass. It is very similar to the Junin Canastero and the Line-fronted Canastero but is distinguished by having a rufous forehead, whitish throat, and center of the belly, and tail marked with rufous scribbles.

Status: The Scribble-tailed Canastero is uncommon but local in southeast Peru at elevations ranging between 3000-3950 m. It also occurs in Bo.

Name in Spanish: Canastero Estriado.

Sub-species: Scribble-tailed Canastero (Asthenes maculicauda), Berlepsch, 1901.

Meaning of Name: Asthenes: Gr. a= a negative prefix and sthenos= power. asthenes= insignificant, powerless. maculicauda: L. macula= spot and cauda= tail.

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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.

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