Tepui Spinetail - BirdForum Opus

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Location: Escalera, SE Venezuela

Cranioleuca demissa

Distribution

Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:

• C. d. cardonaorum: tepuis of southern Venezuela
• C. d. demissa: tepuis of southeastern Venezuela, west-central Guyana, and far northern Brazil

Habitat

Moist montanes.

References

1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, M. Smith, and C. L. Wood. 2024. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2024. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 15.1). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.15.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Tepui Spinetail. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Tepui_Spinetail

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