Order: Passeriformes (Suboscines) - Family: Furnaridae Status: Occasional. Habitat: Bushland

All records since January 2014

Adult
8 10 13 © Naty Mufato Yellow chin. Black throat flanked white. Cinnamon pectoral area. 6 2012 © Pablo Mosto Long tail. Rufous crown and shoulders. Back streaked black 7 10 06 © Roberto Ares

Breeding
9 10 11 © Claudia Furman

10-2011 © Roberto Ares

A species rarely seen at Costanera. This year the chotoy visited us and stayed to breed. The nest was very well camouflaged among the branches of an Acacia caven and covered with climbing plants on top. This "I want to be invisible" behaviour did not let us see much. Its brownish color and its distracting behaviour to go into or out of the nest made the follow up even more difficult. We did not see it leave and, all of a sudden, in it went. The movement of its long tail let us spot it. Some jumps from one branch to another and it got lost in the denseness. It moved so quickly that the video was slowed down to a quarter of the velocity and the bird encircled to be easily visualized. How many chicks? We do not know, but it made several trips to get food. 12 - 2011 Video © Roberto Ares - Text: Cora Rimoldi>

© Roberto Ares Today we met the Chotoy Spinetail again. The sound announced its presence and we stayed to watch it. But there were two different voices, one sounded like that of the adult. Is the other one another voice between adults or a juvenile's voice? Almost a month ago food was taken to the nest to feed the chicks. CR

More photographic records since 2013

Previous registers
8 10 13 © Naty Mufato	25 12 12 © Pablo Mosto
21 6 12 © Pablo Mosto	20 5 12 © Pablo Mosto
18 2 12 © Pablo Mosto	9 10 11 © Claudia Furman
7 10 06 © Roberto Ares	10 2002 © Alec Earnshaw