OVENBIRDS   -   FURNARIIDAE   -   PART II
Tit-spinetails to canasteros

Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura fuliginiceps paranensis Los Cardones NP, Salta province, Argentina. In mountains from Bolivia to northern Argentina. (S5)

Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura aegithaloides grisescens Chaca Valley, Region I, Chile. (S5)

Striolated Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura striolata Aparados da Serra National Park, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Another Brazilian endemic, occurring in an inexplicably small area in southern Brazil. (D4)

Andean Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura andicola andicola Papallacta Pass, Pichincha province, Ecuador. (S5)

Araucaria Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura setaria Hotel Veraneio Hampel, São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande de Sul state, Brazil. A neat little bird that seems to be totally restricted to Araucaria trees; I have never seen one land in any other kind of tree. Almost endemic to Brazil, but it does get into Argentina around Iguazú Falls. (D4)

Des Murs's Wiretail Sylviorthorhynchus desmursii Chiloe Island, Region X, Chile. Sadly, this individual was missing the long cental pair of tail feathers that give it it's name. It is found through most of Chile and parts of adjacent Argentina. It is restricted to bamboo. (S5)

White-chinned Thistletail Schizoeaca fuliginosa fuliginosa Papallacta Pass, Pichincha province, Ecuador. (S5)

White-chinned Thistletail Schizoeaca fuliginosa fuliginosa Papallacta Pass, Pichincha province, Ecuador. Probably the same individual as in the previous photo. (S5)

Mouse-colored Thistletail Schizoeaca griseomurina Cerro Toledo, Loja province, Ecuador. Restricted to scrub on the edge of páramo from southern Ecuador to northern Peru. (S5)

Itatiaia Spinetail (Thistletail) Oreophylax moreirae Algulhas Negras road, Itatiaia NP, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. There is some controversy over whether this Brazilian endemic is more closely related to a spinetail or a thistletail. To me it is far more like a thistletail in plumage, voice, and behavior. (S5)

Chotoy Spinetail Schoeniophylax phryganophilus phryganophilus Pantanal Highway, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. A beautiful and unique spinetail in its own monotypic genus. It is found in lightly wooded areas from Bolivia to Uruguay and northern Argentina. (D3)

Pinto's Spinetail Synallaxis infuscata RPPN Frei Caneca, Pernambuco state, Brazil. An endangered endemic restricted to the northeastern remnants of the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. (S6)

Silvery-throated Spinetail Synallaxis subpudica Cerro de Guadalupe, Bogotá Colombia. Endemic to the eastern Andes of Colombia. It is not well named; there is ony a narrow silvery border around its otherwise dark throat. (S5)

Sooty-fronted Spinetail Synallaxis frontalis frontalis Serra do Cipó NP, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Found in lightly wooded areas from central Brazil to northern Argentina. (S5f)

Spix's Spinetail Synallaxis spixi Mucugê, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia state, Brazil. Here at the northern limit of its range. Some books still call this Chicli Spinetail, a name mistakenly given to the bird many years ago, probably due to confusing its voice with that of Sooty-fronted Spinetail (S. frontalis). (D3)

Rufous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis erythrothorax pacific Northeast of Mapastepec, Chiapas state, Mexico. Mexico's only spinetail. (S5)

Ochre-cheeked Spinetail Synallaxis scutata whitii Calilgua NP, Jujuy province, Argentina. One of the more colorful of the Synallaxis spinetails. It has a rather large range from eastern Brazil to northwestern Argentina, but is quite localized. (S5)

White-browed Spinetail Hellmayrea gularis gularis Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador. A common but skulking bird of temperate Andean forests. (S5)

Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia pyrrhophia El Tunal, Salta province, Argentina. (S5)

Ash-browed Spinetail Cranioleuca curtata cisandina Old Loja-Zamora highway, Zamora-Chinchipe province, Ecuador. (D3)

Yellow-chinned Spinetail Certhiaxis cinnamomeus russeola Reserva Ecologica de Guapi Assu, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. This one is always found around still water (fresh or salt). The yellow chin is not always obvious in the field. (D2)

Cordilleran Canastero Asthenes modesta modesta Lauca National Park, Region I, Chile. Carrying food. There must have been a nest nearby, but it wouldn't go in while I was standing there. (S5)

Puna Canastero Asthenes sclateri lilloi La Cuesta del Obispo, Salta province, Argentina. Inhabits high Andean puna from SE Peru to N Argentina, though there is an isolated subspecies in the Sierra de Córdoba in Argentina. (S5)

Austral Canastero Asthenes anthoides Torres del Paine National Park, Region XII, Chile. (D3)

Many-striped Canastero Asthenes flammulata flammulata Papallacta Pass, Pichincha province, Ecuador. (S5)

Creamy-breasted Canastero Asthenes dorbignyi dorbignyi La Cuesta del Obispo, Salta province, Argentina. This species is going to be split into three. The nominate race, found in the Andes of Bolivia & N Argentina, will likely get a new name, Rusty-vented Canastero. (S5)

Cipo Canastero Asthenes luizae Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Endemic to rocky highlands of an isolated mountain range in southeastern Brazil. Described to science only in 1990. (S5)

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