Masafuera Rayadito

Appearance

The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a poorly defined buff-brown supercilium on a dusky face. Their forehead is whitish with narrow rufous streaks and their crown is dark dusky brown.

The Masafuera rayadito is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long.

Range and habitat

The Masafuera rayadito is found only on Alejandro Selkirk Island in the Juan Fernández Archipelago, about 670 km (360 nmi. 420 mi) off the coast of Chile. It inhabits thick undergrowth in semi-humid to humid montane scrub and also wooded areas with much Dicksonia externa tree fern. It often occurs along streams, and often in stands of the canelo tree Drimys confertifolia.

It is endemic to Alejandro Selkirk Island (Isla Más Afuera, Outermost Island) in the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet and breeding

The Masafuera rayadito's diet is not well known, but is probably mostly arthropods. It almost always forages in pairs, usually in the understorey but sometimes in leaf litter on the ground.

The Masafuear rayadito's breeding season includes at least December and January. It makes a nest of plant fibers in a natural cavity on a cliff face, and also in nest boxes provided by humans.

In crisis

Masafuera Rayadito is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Masafuera Rayadito, Wikidata item Q281040. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.