Tufted Tit-Spinetail

About the Tufted Tit-Spinetail

The tufted tit-spinetail (Leptasthenura platensis) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and possibly Paraguay. The tufted tit-spinetail is monotypic.

The tufted tit-spinetail is 15 to 17 cm (5.9 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 10 to 12 g (0.35 to 0.42 oz). It is a small, slender, long-tailed furnariid with a short crest and a short bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a thin pale supercilium on an otherwise dull grayish brown face. Their crown and crest are dark brown with paler streaks, their back and rump dull grayish brown, and their uppertail coverts a paler grayish brown with a tawny tinge. Their wings are mostly grayish brown with some paler feather edges and tips. Their tail is mostly dark fuscous with some dull rufous at the ends of the outermost feathers; it is graduated and the feathers narrow at the tips giving a spiny appearance. Their throat and upper breast are whitish with faint brownish markings; the rest of their underparts are pale grayish brown with slightly darker flanks and undertail coverts. Their iris is brown, their... Wikipedia →