Birds Flora Fauna Ecosystems



Seguinos en Facebook

 

     
  Check List Buscador de Aves
Lesser Canastero
Asthenes pyrrholeuca

DESCRIPTION:

Lesser Canastero

Canastero Coludo

Thripophaga pyrrholeuca

 

Length: 160mm. Sexes alike. Bill greyish brown with base of mandible pale grey; iris dark brown; upperparts of head, neck and back cinnamon greyish brown. Throat with ferruginous yellow spot; eyebrow whitish; neck and breast pale greyish brown with faint whitish striation;

belly brownish-whitish, flanks and undertail coverts cinnamon brown. Wing coverts cinnamon; remiges brown with cinnamon basal bar. Tail dark brown with the three feathers on either side cinnamon. Legs dark grey. Average weight: 20g. The spot on the throat is duller in the female. Juveniles are similar to adults but with a whitish throat. Habitat and behaviour: it inhabits shrubby vegetation both in wet areas of the subantarctic forest and in the Patagonian steppe. A very common bird, it is found in pairs or in family groups. It dashes about continually among the thickets and flies short distances, from one shrub to another, giving out a slightly piercing call. It does not go to the ground and keeps its tail in line with the body, not raising it. It feeds chiefly on insects. The nest is built among thick shrubby vegetation, spherical in shape, up to four white eggs being laid. Range: throughout Patagonia except in Tierra del Fuego. The east of Río Negro, Chubut and Santa Cruz supports the race Thripophaga p. pyrrholeuca while the race Thripophaga p. sordida occurs in Neuquén, west of Río Negro and northwest of Chubut.

 

Illustrated Handbook of the Birds of Patagonia

 

Kindness: Kovacs Family

 
SHARE THIS:
 
 

Photographs: Mariano Diez Peña


Birding Patagonia • Birdwatcing in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina and Chile.
All Rights reserved. Reproduction of photographs is forbidden without permission from the authors.
Photographs on the website: Mariano Diez Peña