Adult (aegithaloides) © VERONICA ARAYA GARCIA eBird S40079746 Macaulay Library ML 72794591
Adult (berlepschi) © Evangelina Indelicato
Adult (pallida) © Pio Marshall
Adult (grisescens) © Luis Salazar Vargas 🇨🇱
Adult (aegithaloides) © Ariel Cabrera Foix
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Adult (berlepschi) © Pio Marshall
Adult (pallida) © yanina carpio
Adult (aegithaloides) © Pablo Gutiérrez Maier
Adult (berlepschi) © Steve Walker

Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura aegithaloides

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Identification

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Widespread and often fairly common in southern South America. Found in varied habitats from Patagonian shrub-steppe to parks and gardens to high Andean puna shrub-grassland to lowland desert scrub. Often in pairs, foraging low to high from weedy brush and shrubs to tree canopy; agile and often active, clinging upside down at tips of branches. Identified by streaky face, mostly plain back, and very long spiky-tipped tail. Voice varies regionally and multiple cryptic species are likely involved.

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