Creamy-crested Spinetail

Cranioleuca albicapilla (Cabanis, 1873)

Creamy-crested Spinetail, Cranioleuca albicapilla, breeds in central and southern Peru in the Andes, where it lives in semi-humid and humid montane forest, cloudforest and Polylepis woodland. It is a resident bird of the Furnariidae family. Its most noticeable feature is a pale cream-coloured crest on the head, which helps set it apart from other spinetails. The species was described by Cabanis in 1873 and has two subspecies, with their ranges meeting and blending where they overlap.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Furnariidae — Ovenbirds

Breeding range

South America: c, s Peru