Eye-ringed Thistletail - BirdForum Opus

Photo by guiacalles
Puente Carrizales, Satipo Road, Junin, Peru, September 2013

Asthenes palpebralis

Schizoeaca palpebralis

Identification

• Chestnut brown above
• Grey below
• Chestnut brown head and wings
• Rusty orange chin patch
• Prominent broad white eye-ring
• Very long, deeply forked and thin rufous tail
• Sexes alike

Distribution

South America: found only in the Andes of central Peru (Junín).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species¹.

Moved to genus Asthenes by Clements (2010)^[1] and IOC (2010)^[1].

Habitat

High-altitude grassland, bamboo shrubs.

Behaviour

The diet includes insects.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
3. neotropical.birds.cornell
4. Birdforum thread discussing the taxonomy of Schizoeaca
5. Wikipedia

• List of references

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Eye-ringed Thistletail. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Eye-ringed_Thistletail

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