Cinclodes

Cinclodes is a genus of passerine birds belonging to the ovenbird family Furnariidae. There are about a dozen species distributed across the southern and Andean regions of South America. They are terrestrial birds of open habitats, typically found near water such as mountain streams or the seashore where they forage for small invertebrates. They are stocky birds with strong legs and feet and pointed, slightly downcurved bills. The plumage is inconspicuous and mainly brown, often with a pale wingbar, stripe over the eye and corners to the tail. They have loud, trilling songs and often raise their wings while singing.

Cinclodes
Buff-winged cinclodes (C. fuscus) in Argentina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Genus:	Cinclodes G.R. Gray, 1840
Type species
Motacilla patagonica Gmelin, 1789
Species
See list

Taxonomy

The genus Cinclodes was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray.^[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek kinklos, a word for an unknown waterside bird, with -oidēs meaning "resembling".^[2] In 1855 Gray specified the type species as the dark-bellied cinclodes, a species that had been described in 1889 by Gmelin under the binomial name Motacilla patagonica.^[3][4]

The genus contains 15 extant species:^[5]

Image	Common name	Scientific Name	Distribution
	Long-tailed cinclodes	Cinclodes pabsti	southern Atlantic Forest and Espinhaço Mountains
	Blackish cinclodes	Cinclodes antarcticus	Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego
	Buff-winged cinclodes	Cinclodes fuscus	southern Cone
	Cordoba cinclodes	Cinclodes comechingonus	Sierras de Córdoba
	Chestnut-winged cinclodes	Cinclodes albidiventris	northern Andes
	Cream-winged cinclodes	Cinclodes albiventris	puna grassland
	Olrog's cinclodes	Cinclodes olrogi	Sierras de Córdoba
	Grey-flanked cinclodes	Cinclodes oustaleti	Chile
	Stout-billed cinclodes	Cinclodes excelsior	northern Andes
	Royal cinclodes	Cinclodes aricomae	southern Peru and western Bolivia
	White-bellied cinclodes	Cinclodes palliatus	central Peru
-	White-winged cinclodes	Cinclodes atacamensis	puna grassland and Sierras de Córdoba
	Dark-bellied cinclodes	Cinclodes patagonicus	Chile
-	Peruvian seaside cinclodes	Cinclodes taczanowskii	coastal Peru
-	Chilean seaside cinclodes	Cinclodes nigrofumosus	coastal Chile

In addition, a fossil species, Cinclodes major, has been described for the Pleistocene from Argentina.^[6]

References

1. Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 16.
2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
3. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 26.
4. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 65.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
6. Toni, E. P. (1977). "Un furnárido (Aves, Passeriformes) del Pleistoceno medio de la Provincia de Buenos Aires". Publicaciones del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales de Mar del Plata Lorenzo Scaglia. 2: 141–147.

Further reading

• Chesser, R. Terry (2004) Systematics, evolution and biogeography of the South American ovenbird genus Cinclodes, Auk 121 (3): 752-766
• Jaramillo, Alvaro; Burke, Peter & Beadle, David (2003) Field Guide to the Birds of Chile, Christopher Helm, London