Slaty Spinetail

Slaty SpinetailThis spinetail is recorded in the humid forests of Tumbes in northwestern Peru. Adults are gray with a rufous crown, and they forage in low growth at forest edges and in secondary forest.What does it look like?Adults are mostly slate gray, with a bright rufous crown and gray tail. The black edging below the throat varies; juveniles have a brown head and lack the rufous crown.How does it live?This spinetail is recorded in the humid forests of Tumbes in northwestern Peru. Adults are gray with a rufous crown, and they forage in low growth at forest edges and in secondary forest.It forages in the understory along humid-forest edges and in dense secondary growth.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.