Spectacled Prickletail (Siptornis striaticollis)

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

spectacled_prickletail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

spectacled_prickletail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

spectacled_prickletail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

spectacled_prickletail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Morona-Santiago, Ecuador


Identification & Behavior: ~12 cm (4.7 in). The Spectacled Prickletail has rufous upperparts and crown. It has a white eye-ring and white superciliary. The tail is bright rufous with wispy tips that form a fork. The throat is orange-rufous. The throat and breast are streaked with whitish. It forages in the mid-story and sub-canopy of humid montane forests often in the company of mixed species flocks. The foraging behavior is somewhat similar to that of a Streaked Xenops but has a straight bill, rufous wings, and tail, without a white malar stripe. Also, see  White-browed Spinetail.

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.

See more of the Family Furnariidae  peru aves

Distribution Mapspectacled prickletail

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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.