Ash-browed Spinetail - BirdForum Opus

Subspecies cisandina
Photo by Stanley Jones
Podocarpus National Park, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador, November 2014

Cranioleuca curtata

Identification

14–15 cm

• A dark plumaged bird
• Pale supercilium

Distribution

South America: found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• C. c. curtata:

• Subtropical Eastern Andes of Colombia

• C. c. cisandina:

• Subtropical Magdalena Valley of central Colombia to northern Peru

• C. c. debilis:

• Andes of Peru (Junín) to western Bolivia

A fourth subspecies, furcata, is not accepted by all authorities^[2]

Habitat

Moist montanes evergreen forests. Heights reported up to 1700 m.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet almost entirely of arthropods gleaned in the mid and upper storey.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Ash-browed Spinetail. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Ash-browed_Spinetail

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