Birds of Brazil

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Genus: Cranioleuca (8 species, 20 worldwide)


Tepui Spinetail (Cranioleuca demissa demissa) Monte Roraima, Venezuela
Photograph by J. A. Jacomelli Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Scaled Spinetail (Cranioleuca muelleri) ENDEMIC Mazagão, Amapá, Brazil
Photograph by Guto Balieiro Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Olive Spinetail (Cranioleuca obsoleta) Curitiba, Brazil
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Pallid Spinetail (Cranioleuca pallida) ENDEMIC National Park da Serra dos Órgãos, Brazil
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Stripe-crowned Spinetail (Cranioleuca pyrrhophia pyrrhophia) Islas del Ibicuy,, Entre Rios, Argentina
Photograph by Gustavo Masuzzo © All Rights Reserved.


Grey-headed Spinetail (Cranioleuca semicinerea) ENDEMIC Geossítio Ponte de Pedra, Nova Olinda, Brazil
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte © All Rights Reserved.


Parker's Spinetail (Cranioleuca vulpecula) Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Found in tall grass on river islands in large rivers in the Amazon, often with the White-bellied Spinetail. Note dark sides compared to Red-and-white Spinetail
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Rusty-backed Spinetail (Cranioleuca vulpina vulpina) Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba