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Black-throated Thistletail
Asthenes harterti (Berlepsch, 1901)
Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
Black-throated Thistletail, Asthenes harterti, is a passerine of the ovenbird family that breeds in north and central Bolivia. It is confined to the Andes in the west of the country, where it occurs in La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. It lives in páramo grassland, elfin forest, the transition at the tree line and the margins of cloudforest. The nominate form is the more northerly of the two recognised subspecies, and the species was described by Berlepsch in 1901.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: n, c Bolivia
