Stripe-crowned Spinetail (Cranioleuca pyrrhophia)
Stripe-crowned Spinetail, Barra do Quaraí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image Brazil
August 2004

The Stripe-crowned Spinetail is distributed from central Bolivia to central Argentina including western Paraguay, Uruguay and the southern tip of Brazil.

Stripe-crowned Spinetail, Barra do Quaraí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image It is found in woodland, scrub and gallery forest where it searches for ants and beetles often behaving quite acrobatically and hanging upside down.

It has a streaked crown, broad white supercilium and dark eye-stripe. Upperparts are brownish-grey apart from the rufous wing-coverts while below it is whitish. The tail is rufous and very pointed.
Stripe-crowned Spinetail, Rio Camaquã, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image
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