Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae) | Photos and ID

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Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Dan Riley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae), photo 6 — Photo: (c) filipeprates, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Morten Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Daniel S. Katz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Itatiaia Spinetail (Asthenes moreirae), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Nicolas Olejnik, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The Itatiaia spinetail is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz). It is one of the smaller members of its genus. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly dull brown face, sometimes with a faint paler eyering. Their crown, upperparts, wings, and tail are uniformly dark brown. Their tail feathers lack most barbs at the end, giving them a spiny appearance. Their chin and throat are pale dingy buff with a tawny ochraceous patch in the center of the latter. Voice: The Itatiaia spinetail's song is an "accelerating series of extr. high, slightly rising notes 'you-tee-wiwiwiwi' ". Its call is a "low 'piuw' ".

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When to see the Itatiaia Spinetail

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Itatiaia Spinetail

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil

About the Itatiaia Spinetail

The Itatiaia spinetail, also known as the Itatiaia thistletail, is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is endemic to southeastern Brazil.

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Easily confused with

Mouse-colored ThistletailAsthenes griseomurinaThe mouse-colored thistletail is 18 to 21 cm (7.1 to 8.3 in) long and weighs 15.5 to 19 g (0.55 to 0.67 oz).

Puna ThistletailAsthenes helleriThe puna thistletail is 17 to 18.5 cm (6.7 to 7.3 in) long and weighs 13 to 17 g (0.46 to 0.60 oz).

Junin CanasteroAsthenes virgataThe Junin canastero is about 17.5 to 18 cm (6.9 to 7.1 in) long; one specimens weighed 22 g (0.78 oz).

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