Critically Endangered
White-bellied Cinclodes
Cinclodes palliatus
White-bellied Cinclodes is a perching bird in the family Furnariidae (order Passeriformes) — Cinclodes palliatus, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Peru.
Appearance
The white-bellied cinclodes is larger and has a longer tail than other members of its genus and more resembles a mockingbird than a typical Cinclodes. The crown is brownish-grey, the upper parts and wings rufous-brown with a broad white wing bar, and the underparts pure white. The white-bellied cinclodes is a bird in the ovenbird family, Furnariidae.
It grows to a length of about 24 cm (9 in).
Range and habitat
It has very specific habitat requirements. It needs mineral-rich, boggy terrain where such cushion plants as Distichia grow, with crags and rocky slopes nearby. Its altitudinal range is about 4,430 m (14,530 ft) to the snowline at around 5,000 m (16,400 ft). This habitat is often found near the foot of glaciers, but there is much apparently suitable habitat where the birds are not present.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The white-bellied cinclodes forages in pairs or small groups, pushing its beak into the wet ground to find worms and other invertebrates. Its breeding habits are not well known, but the nest is usually hidden in a rock crevice.
In crisis
It is a rare bird with very specific habitat requirements and is threatened by habitat destruction. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being "critically endangered". This practice threatens the integrity of these crucial ecosystems, that the White-bellied cinclodes relies on for its survival.
White-bellied Cinclodes 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 White-bellied Cinclodes, Wikidata item Q1274207. 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.
