White-browed Spinetail
The White-browed Spinetail is a small member of the Furnariidae, easily missed because of its size and its generally inconspicuous lifestyle. These birds keep to dense, low underbrush and bamboo, where they secure their insect food. This is the only member of its genus, whose name honours Carl Hellmayr, an Austrian ornithologist who mostly worked in museums attempting to sort out issues of nomenclature (a challenge even today despite many scientific advances). The bird in this image was seen in a high elevation habitat in Parque Nacional Chingaza, east of Bogota, Colombia, South America.
White-browed Spinetail
The White-browed Spinetail is a small member of the Furnariidae, easily missed because of its size and its generally inconspicuous lifestyle. These birds keep to dense, low underbrush and bamboo, where they secure their insect food. This is the only member of its genus, whose name honours Carl Hellmayr, an Austrian ornithologist who mostly worked in museums attempting to sort out issues of nomenclature (a challenge even today despite many scientific advances). The bird in this image was seen in a high elevation habitat in Parque Nacional Chingaza, east of Bogota, Colombia, South America.