Yellow-chinned Spinetail (Certhiaxis cinnamomeus) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

WetlandDomed nestSmall · 15 g

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The yellow-chinned spinetail is typically 15 cm long, and weighs 15 g. It is a slender bird with a long tail. The upperparts and head are chestnut brown, and the underparts are whitish apart from the pale yellow throat. The sexes are similar, but there are several subspecies, differing in forecrown colour or upperparts tone. Its call is a shrill rattling.

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When to see the Yellow-chinned Spinetail

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-chinned Spinetail

Regular range

The map shades 12 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Argentina Colombia Paraguay Venezuela Trinidad & Tobago Guyana Bolivia Uruguay Suriname French Guiana Peru

About the Yellow-chinned Spinetail

The yellow-chinned spinetail is a passerine bird found in the tropical New World from Trinidad and Colombia south to Argentina and Uruguay. It is a member of the South American ovenbird family Furnariidae.

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Easily confused with

Red-and-white SpinetailCerthiaxis mustelinusThe red-and-white spinetail is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 14 to 16 g (0.49 to 0.56 oz).

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