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What the Dusky Spinetail sounds like
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The dusky spinetail is 15.5 to 17 cm (6.1 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 20 to 25 g (0.71 to 0.88 oz). It is one of the darkest of the Synallaxis spinetails. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dark sooty-gray face. Their forcrown is blackish gray, their hindcrown dark chestnut, their back dark sooty brownish, and their rump and uppertail coverts a slightly lighter sooty brownish. Their wings are dark chestnut with fuscous tips on the flight feathers. Their tail is dark chestnut; it is graduated and the feathers have pointed tips. Voice: The dusky spinetail makes "a low-pitched nasal chattering or churring, 'rha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a' "; it is not known if this is a song or a call.
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When to see the Dusky Spinetail
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Dusky Spinetail
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Dusky Spinetail
The dusky spinetail is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Cinereous-breasted SpinetailSynallaxis hypospodiaThe cinereous-breasted spinetail is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 15 to 18 g (0.53 to 0.63 oz).
Ruddy SpinetailSynallaxis rutilansThe ruddy spinetail is 13 to 15 cm (5.1 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 15 to 22 g (0.53 to 0.78 oz).
Red-shouldered SpinetailSynallaxis hellmayriThe red-shouldered spinetail is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 25 to 26 g (0.88 to 0.92 oz).
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