Endangered
Pinto's Spinetail
Synallaxis infuscata
Pinto's Spinetail is endemic to north-eastern Brazil.
Appearance
The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark grayish face. Their crown and nape are bright reddish chestnut and their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are brownish gray.
Pinto's spinetail is 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 16 to 20 g (0.56 to 0.71 oz).
Range and habitat
Pinto's spinetail is found patchily in far eastern Brazil, in the eastern parts of Paraíba, Alagoas, and Pernambuco states. It inhabits tropical lowland evergreen forest both primary and secondary, usually in dense undergrowth. In elevation it ranges from near sea level to almost 1,100 m (3,600 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It typically forages singly or in pairs, gleaning prey from live and dead leaves and small branches, and usually 1 to 2 m (3 to 7 ft) above the ground. The breeding season of Pinto's spinetail has not been defined but active nests have been found in January and April, and recently fledged young have also been found in April.
Its nest is a globe of sticks, dry leaves, and bark bits with a tunnel entrance at the side. The incubation period is 21 to 22 days, fledging occurs 14 to 16 days after hatch, and both parents build the nest, incubate the clutch, and provision the nestlings.
In crisis
Pinto's Spinetail is 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 Pinto's Spinetail, Wikidata item Q1262596. 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.
