White-browed Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura xenothorax)

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

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco

white-browed_tit-spinetail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco

white-browed_tit-spinetail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco

white-browed_tit-spinetail
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco


Identification & Behavior: ~16 cm (6.2 in). The White-browed Tit-Spinetail has a grayish mantle streaked with whitish. The crown is rufous in the adult and less saturated and more streaked with dusky in younger plumage stages. The throat, sides of the neck, and upper breast are pale streaked with dusky, sharply defined from the plain grayish rest of the underparts. The wing has a broad pale band. It shows no rufous on the folded wing. The tail is gray, very long, strongly graduated, and ends at a wispy fork. It forages exclusively in Polylepis woodlands and associated shrubbery. It is similar to the Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail but their geographic ranges are not known to overlap. Also, see Andean Tit-Spinetail.

Status: Endemic. The White-browed Tit-Spinetail is very local in Polylepis woodlands in Cuzco and Apurimac at elevations ranging between 3800-4500 m. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Tijeral de Ceja Blanca.

Sub-species: White-browed Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura xenothorax), Chapman, 1921.

Meaning of Name: Leptasthenura: Gr. leptos= thin and asthenes = weak and oura= tail. xenothorax: Gr. xenos= strange, different and thorax, thorakos= breastplate.

See more of the Family Furnariidae  peru aves

Distribution Mapwhite-browed_tit-spinetail

Voice


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.