Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura pileata Scientific name definitions

Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail is a small, long-tailed furnariid endemic to Peru. Found in the Andes of western Peru, it inhabits dry scrub and low, open woodlands from 2500 to 3500 meters in elevation. The species is dark brown above and paler brown below with whitish streaking on the face, neck, back, and underparts, a thin white superciliary, an obvious rusty crown (some have thin black streaks), and a long, graduated, spike-tipped tail with large white tips to the outer rectrices.