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Junin, Peru, August 2006

Cinclodes fuscus

[edit] Identification

17–17.5 cm

• Dull brown back
• Tan belly
• White throat finely barred with brown
• Whitish or tan wing-stripes visible in flight
• Whitish-buff stripe over the eye
• Short, almost straight and pointed bill
  

Sexes similar.

[edit] Distribution

Widespread throughout South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina

[edit] Taxonomy

Sometimes includes the Cordoba Cinclodes as a subspecies.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• C. f. oreobates (paramo):

• Santa Marta Mountains, Central and Eastern Andes of northern Colombia

• C. f. heterurus:

• Andes of western Venezuela (Mérida, Trujillo and southern Lara)

• C. f. albidiventris:

• Andes of northern Ecuador to northern Peru (Piura, Cajamarca)

• C. f. albiventris (longipennis, rivularis):

• Andes of northern Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and north-western Argentina

• C. f. tucumanus:

• Northwest Argentina (Tucumán)

• C. f. rufus:

• Andes of north-western Argentina Campo de Arenal in Catamarca)

• C. f. yzurietae:

• Andes of north-western Argentina (Sierra de Manchao in south-eastern Catamarca)

• C. f. riojanus:

• Andes of north-western Argentina (Sierra de Famatina in La Rioja)

• C. f. fuscus:

• Southern Chile and southern Argentina; this migratory population winters to south-eastern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay

[edit] Habitat

High-altitude shrubland, temperate grassland, and high-altitude grassland, near water. Occurs down to sea-level in southern part of range.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects and other small invertebrates.

[edit] Breeding

The nest is built in a burrow, or in a natural cavity in an earthen bank or rock pile. Both the male and female incubate the eggs and rear the nestlings.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Answers.com

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds