Order: Passeriformes | Family: Furnariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
Status: The Spectacled Prickletail is uncommon in montane forests of the east slope of the Andes, north of the Marañon Valley at elevations ranging between 1600-2000 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Cola-de-Púa Frontino.
Sub-species: Spectacled Prickletail (Siptornis striaticollis nortoni), Graves and Robbins, 1987.
Meaning of Name: Siptornis: Gr. sipte, sippe, sitte= bird allied to the woodpeckers mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius, latterly associated with the nuthatch Sitta and ornis, ornithos= bird. striaticollis: L. stria= furrow, striare= to striate and collis, collum= throated, necked.
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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.