Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail

About the Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail

The rusty-crowned tit-spinetail (Leptasthenura pileata) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is endemic to Peru. The rusty-crowned tit-spinetail has three subspecies, the nominate L. p. pileata (Sclater, PL, 1881), L. p. cajabambae (Chapman, 1921), and L. p. latistriata (Koepcke, M, 1965). Subspecies L. p. cajabambae had originally been described as a subspecies of the streak-backed tit-spinetail (L. striata).

The rusty-crowned tit-spinetail is about 15 cm (5.9 in) long and weighs 8 to 12.5 g (0.28 to 0.44 oz). It is a small, long-tailed furnariid with a short bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a short indistinct white supercilium on an otherwise grayish face. Their crown is rufous with narrow white streaks. Their back is blackish with narrow white streaks and their rump light gray-brown with minimal or no streaks. Their wing coverts are dusky brown with light gray-brown edges and their flight feathers dusky brown with pale cinnamon-rufous at the base of some. Their tail's central pair of feathers are dusky brown with much pale gray, the next... Wikipedia →