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The rusty-backed spinetail's breeding season has not been defined but appears to vary geographically. Eggs have been noted in June and July in
Venezuela and in November in eastern Brazil. Its nest is a globe of grass, roots, and sticks with its interior lined with bark shreds and lichens. It is often
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reddish chestnut. Their tail is also reddish chestnut. Their wings are reddish chestnut with duskier tips on the flight feathers. Their chin is buff-white and their throat buff. Their breast is light brown with faint paler streaks, their belly plain light brown, and their flanks and undertail coverts
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The rusty-backed spinetail's song has variously been described as "a rapid series of emphatic notes gradually accelerating but fading, lasting c. 2·5–3 seconds, 'ch-ch-ch-chchchchchewewewewewew' ", "a series of descending, complaining notes 'scew-scew-scew- -", and a "rattly trill, descending, last
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Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 28 September 2023. A classification of the bird species of South
America. American Ornithological Society.
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has assessed the rusty-backed spinetail as being of Least
Concern. It has a very large range but its population size and trend are not known. No immediate threats have been identified. It is considered fairly common to common throughout its range.
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Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 28 September 2023. Species Lists of Birds for South
American Countries and Territories.
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and a narrow dark brownish line behind the eye on an otherwise light brownish face that has faint streaks and spots. Their forehead is brown, their crown and back reddish chestnut, their rump brown, and their uppertail
507:. It mostly feeds in the forest's lower levels but is known to feed higher in riverside forest. It acrobatically gleans prey from bark and dead leaves (and occasionally live ones) while hitching along small branches.
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dull horn to silvery horn, and their legs and feet dull greenish olive or grayish. Juveniles have more grayish upperparts than adults, with a variable ochraceous wash and faint mottling on their underparts.
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The rusty-backed spinetail is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 14 to 17 g (0.49 to 0.60 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies
438:: northeastern Colombia, central and southern Venezuela, western Guyana, northern and central Brazil, extreme eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeastern and eastern Paraguay (but see below)
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wedged in a low tree or shrub fork above water, where it resembles flood debris. The clutch size is two to three eggs. Nothing else is known about the species' breeding biology.
830:), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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is paler than the other subspecies but with more rufescent upperparts; its underparts are more buffy than the nominate's and have no streaking.
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887:Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia
855:A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
499:The rusty-backed spinetail feeds on
1221:IUCN Red List least concern species
599:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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1256:Taxa named by August von Pelzeln
771:IOC World Bird List Version 13.2
717:Check-List of Birds of the World
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463:American Ornithological Society
289:that was introduced in 1853 by
257:The rusty-backed spinetail was
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505:mixed-species feeding flocks
834:retrieved November 13, 2023
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731:Jobling, James A. (2010).
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253:Taxonomy and systematics
1251:Birds described in 1856
853:van Perlo, Ber (2009).
26:Rusty-backed spinetail
428:: western Venezuela's
226:rusty-backed spinetail
457:: northeastern Brazil
446:Cochabamba Department
765:, eds. (July 2023).
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444:: central Bolivia's
1157:Cranioleuca-vulpina
951:Cranioleuca vulpina
921:Cranioleuca vulpina
828:Cranioleuca vulpina
650:IOC World Bird List
592:Cranioleuca vulpina
335:Meyer de Schauensee
231:Cranioleuca vulpina
215:Cranioleuca dissita
181:Cranioleuca vulpina
42:Conservation status
1236:Birds of Venezuela
1169:Synallaxis vulpina
761:; Donsker, David;
640:; Donsker, David;
361:Parker's spinetail
291:Ludwig Reichenbach
270:Synallaxis vulpina
263:August von Pelzeln
259:formally described
1231:Birds of Colombia
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1139:Open Tree of Life
913:Taxon identifiers
896:978-0-9827615-0-2
864:978-0-19-530155-7
763:Rasmussen, Pamela
744:978-1-4081-2501-4
712:Peters, James Lee
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619:13 November
401:Subspecies
381:supercilium
371:Description
286:Cranioleuca
247:Furnariidae
238:species of
236:Neotropical
150:Cranioleuca
139:Furnariidae
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1184:Q109556963
1152:Xeno-canto
572:References
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407:C. v. foxi
357:C. dissita
328:C. v. foxi
312:Phelps, WH
308:Zimmer, JT
298:subspecies
265:under the
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89:Eukaryota
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656:July 31,
652:. v 13.2
511:Breeding
487:Movement
482:Behavior
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281:vulpinus
276:is from
207:Synonyms
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109:Chordata
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99:Animalia
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62:IUCN 3.1
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960:Avibase
495:Feeding
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386:coverts
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296:Four
278:Latin
1193:GBIF
1113:NCBI
1100:IUCN
1087:ITIS
1048:GBIF
1014:Z525
986:BOLD
891:ISBN
859:ISBN
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604:2017
565:IUCN
563:The
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