Order: Passeriformes | Family: Furnariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Abra Malaga, Cuzco
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.
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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.