Tepui Spinetail (Cranioleuca demissa) | Range and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestDomed nestSmall · 15 g

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The 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). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a whitish supercilium on an otherwise dull brownish face with a few pale streaks. Their forehead is brown with some rufous touches, their crown reddish chestnut, and their back rich brown that becomes more rufescent by the uppertail coverts. Their wings are reddish chestnut and their flight feathers are slightly paler with dark fuscous tips. Voice: The tepui spinetail's song is "a thin, descending, accelerating series, 'téé-téé-te-ti ti'ti'ti'ti'ti'i'i'i' " and its alarm call a "high, short, dry rattle".

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When to see the Tepui Spinetail

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

Where to see the Tepui Spinetail

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 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.

Venezuela Guyana

Recorded as a rare visitor in Brazil.

About the Tepui Spinetail

The tepui spinetail is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela.

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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). 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.

Bolivian SpinetailCranioleuca henricaeThe Bolivian spinetail is 14.5 to 15 cm (5.7 to 5.9 in) long.

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