Order
Passeriformes
Family
Furnariidae
Genus
Asthenes
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Puna Thistletail Asthenes helleri

Huw Lloyd
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2009

Behavior

Introduction

Puna Thistletail primarily forages in dense understorey (Remsen 2003) dominated by Chusquea bamboo and other small woody trees and shrubs. Like other members of the genus individuals or pairs typically forage in dense understorey vegetation, with the tail often cocked upright. Occasionally birds descend to the ground to forage on moss-covered substrates (e.g. dead wood).

Territoriality

No quantitative information available, but territorial conflicts between pairs have been observed (Lloyd unpublished data).

Sexual Behavior

Little information available but presumably is monogamous

Social and interspecific behavior

Usually encountered singly or in pairs (Remsen 2003, Schulenberg et al. 2007), the Puna Thistletail only rarely follows mixed species flocks.

Predation

No information.

Recommended Citation

Lloyd, H. (2009). Puna Thistletail (Asthenes helleri), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.punthi1.01