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The cream-winged cinclodes is 15 to 19 cm (5.9 to 7.5 in) long and weighs about 20 to 34 g (0.71 to 1.2 oz). It is a small cinclodes with a shortish bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies C. a. albiventris have a distinct light buffish white supercilium, dark gray-brown ear coverts with pale streaks, and a white malar area. Their crown and upperparts are rusty-gray. Their wing coverts are dark brown with wide buffish edges and their flight feathers dark fuscous with a cream band across them. Voice: The cream-winged cinclodes' song has been rendered as "cheet, cheet, cheet, prre EEEEOOOO, OOOOEEEEEE'cheet' cheet'cheet...", though in Chile it has been described as "a rising twittery trill, 'trrrreee'i'i'i'i'i' ". Its calls are thought to be similar to those of the buff-winged cinclodes, which are "a sharp 'pfip'... series of high-pitched tinkling notes a sharp whistled 'tsip' ".
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When to see the Cream-winged Cinclodes
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 Cream-winged Cinclodes
The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Ecuador.
About the Cream-winged Cinclodes
The cream-winged cinclodes is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Royal CinclodesCinclodes aricomaeThe royal cinclodes is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long and weighs about 50 g (1.8 oz).
White-bellied CinclodesCinclodes palliatusThe white-bellied cinclodes is larger and has a longer tail than other members of its genus and more resembles a mockingbird than a typical Cinclodes.
Long-tailed CinclodesCinclodes pabstiThe long-tailed cinclodes is 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) long and weighs 43 to 55 g (1.5 to 1.9 oz).
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