Marcapata Spinetail (Cranioleuca marcapatae)
About the Marcapata Spinetail
The Marcapata spinetail (Cranioleuca marcapatae) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is endemic to Peru. The Marcapata spinetail was first described in 1935 from a specimen probably collected in 1905. It was treated as monotypic until 1984 when what is now the Vilcabamba spinetail (C. weskei) was described as a subspecies of it. BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World split the Vilcabamba spinetail as a separate species in 2016 and the International Ornithological Committee followed suit in 2023. However, the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society and the Clements taxonomy retain the two-subspecies treatment of the Marcapata spinetail. This article follows the monotypic species model.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 33 recordings for this species: 28 CC BY-NC-ND · 5 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Peru in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Ash-browed SpinetailCranioleuca curtatarecording
- Crested SpinetailCranioleuca subcristatarecording
- Line-cheeked SpinetailCranioleuca antisiensisrecording
- Parker's SpinetailCranioleuca vulpecularecording
- Red-faced SpinetailCranioleuca erythropsrecording
- Scaled SpinetailCranioleuca muellerirecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.