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What the Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail sounds like
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The brown-capped tit-spinetail is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 9 to 13 g (0.32 to 0.46 oz). It is a small, slender, long-tailed furnariid with a short bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a pale dull buff supercilium on an otherwise plain brownish face. Their crown is brown, their upper back a paler brown, and their lower back, rump, and uppertail coverts are refescent. Their wings are mostly rufous. Their tail is rufous; it is graduated and the feathers narrow at the tips giving a spiny appearance. Voice: The brown-capped tit-spinetail's song has not been described. Its call is "a faint insect-like 'pree' ".
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When to see the Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail
The brown-capped tit-spinetail is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia.
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Easily confused with
Streak-backed Tit-SpinetailLeptasthenura striataThe streak-backed tit-spinetail is 14.5 to 16.5 cm (5.7 to 6.5 in) long and weighs about 8.5 to 10.5 g (0.30 to 0.37 oz).
Rusty-crowned Tit-SpinetailLeptasthenura pileataThe rusty-crowned tit-spinetail is about 15 cm (5.9 in) long and weighs 8 to 12.5 g (0.28 to 0.44 oz).
Striolated Tit-SpinetailLeptasthenura striolataThe striolated tit-spinetail is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz).
Side by side: Araucaria Tit-Spinetail vs Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail · Andean Tit-Spinetail vs Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail
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