- Cranioleuca vulpina
Identification
15–16 cm (6-6¼ in)
- Chestnut upperparts
- Buff supercilium
- Whitish underparts
Distribution
South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
Taxonomy
Coiba Spinetail was formerly included in this species.
Subspecies
Four subspecies recognized[1]:
- C. v. apurensis in western Venezuela (western Apure)
- C. v. vulpina in northeast Colombia to Venezuela, Brazil and extreme eastern Bolivia
- C. v. foxi in central Bolivia (eastern Cochabamba)
- C. v. reiseri in northeast Brazil (Piauí, western Pernambuco and western Bahia)
Habitat
Cerrado, gallery forests, a variety of waterside wooded habitats, scrubland.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of arthropods.
Gallery
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Photo by Juan J. Culasso
Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brasil, December 2009
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2016)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Rusty-backed Spinetail. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Rusty-backed_Spinetail
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
