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Many-striped Canastero
Asthenes flammulata (Jardine, 1850)
Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
Many-striped Canastero, Asthenes flammulata, is a passerine of the ovenbird family found in South America from Colombia through Ecuador to Peru. It lives in the belt between timberline and páramo grassland, where rock outcrops, scattered shrubs, Espeletia and Polylepis groves are part of the landscape. The species is a year-round resident. It is a heavily streaked canastero, and the sexes share the same plumage. Its range is disjunct, with subspecies occurring in the Eastern, Central and Western Andes of Colombia and along the Andes of Ecuador and Peru.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: Colombia to c Peru
