Light-crowned Spinetail (Cranioleuca albiceps) | Photos and ID

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Light-crowned Spinetail (Cranioleuca albiceps), photo 2 — Photo: (c) David F. Belmonte, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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The light-crowned spinetail is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 13 to 17 g (0.46 to 0.60 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dark gray-brown supercilium with a black line above it and some blackish around the eye on an otherwise dark grayish brown face. Their forehead is ocraceous buff and their crown white to buffy or tawny. Their hindneck and sides of the neck have a dark brownish "collar". Their back is reddish chestnut that becomes duller and browner on the rump and uppertail coverts. Voice: The light-crowned spinetail's song is "a descending series of 6-10 evenly spaced notes" and its call "a long, excited trill".

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When to see the Light-crowned Spinetail

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Light-crowned Spinetail

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country 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.

Bolivia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru.

About the Light-crowned Spinetail

The light-crowned spinetail is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.

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Easily confused with

Russet-mantled SofttailCranioleuca berlepschiThe russet-mantled softtail is 16.5 to 18 cm (6.5 to 7.1 in) long and weighs about 23 g (0.81 oz). Tepui SpinetailCranioleuca demissaThe tepui spinetail is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 14 to 17 g (0.49 to 0.60 oz). Scaled SpinetailCranioleuca muelleriThe scaled spinetail is a dark bird with scaly-looking undersides, a pale supercilium, dark brown upperparts and rufuous crown, wings and tail.

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