Sooty-fronted Spinetail Synallaxis frontalis

Brazilian name: petrim
Sooty-fronted Spinetail, Barra do Quaraí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image Brazil

The Sooty-fronted Spinetail is distributed from eastern Brazil to Bolivia and northern Argentina. It is found in a wide variety of forest and woodland edge habitats as well as arid, scrubby areas.

Sooty-fronted Spinetail, Barra do Quaraí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image It has a rufous crown with dusky forecrown, a rufous tail and rufous on the wings. Otherwise upperparts are olive-brown. The throat is white bordered on the lower throat by black.

Photos 1 and 2 were taken at Barra do Quaraí, Rio Grande do Sul; photo 3 at Serra de Baturité, Ceará; and photo 4 at the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia. 
Sooty-fronted Spinetail, Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image There are recordings on xeno-canto and additional information available via Avibase.
Sooty-fronted Spinetail, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image
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