Eye-ringed Thistletail

Asthenes palpebralis (Cabanis, 1873)

Eye-ringed Thistletail, Asthenes palpebralis, is a passerine of the ovenbird family found in central Peru, where it is confined to the Andes of Junín. It lives in the narrow band between cloudforest and elfin forest, often where Chusquea bamboo thickens the understorey, at 3,030 to 3,710 m. It is a monotypic species. Adults show a broad white eye-ring, dark lores and a chestnut-brown face, with a long, deeply forked tail that looks ragged at the tips. The sexes are alike, and juveniles lack the rusty chin patch.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Furnariidae — Ovenbirds

Breeding range

South America: c Peru