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The Vilcabamba spinetail is 14.5 to 16 cm (5.7 to 6.3 in) long and weighs about 20 g (0.71 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a grayish face washed with buff. Their crown and a short crest are white with black on the sides. Their nape is grayish and their back, tail, and wings are rufous. Their throat is white and their breast and belly are grayish buff. Their iris is reddish brown, their maxilla grayish horn, their mandible silvery to blue-gray, and their legs and feet olive green. Voice: The Vilcabamba spinetail's song and call have not be put into words. Both xeno-canto and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library have recordings within their Marcapata spinetail collections.
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When to see the Vilcabamba Spinetail
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 1 month with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
About the Vilcabamba Spinetail
The Vilcabamba spinetail is a species of passerine bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is endemic to Peru.
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Easily confused with
Coiba SpinetailCranioleuca dissitaThe Coiba spinetail is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long.
Bolivian SpinetailCranioleuca henricaeThe Bolivian spinetail is 14.5 to 15 cm (5.7 to 5.9 in) long.
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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