15 cm. Buff brown and rather long tailed. Head grayish-brown becoming rusty brown. Upperside streaked blackish. Sides of head and cheeks blackish. Narrow white superciliary. Shoulders gray. Underside light buff. <NThe female has broader streaks on top. <NThe juvenile is barred on the belly. Throat white.
Call "naa", short "dic" ^119 . Song a sequence of "tik tik titi...." sounds, vocalization 1 . possibly duets.
Forages in high grass, reeds or in bushes, frequently sits exposed: usually in pairs.
Uncommon in open grassy areas close to water: reed beds, tall grass areas, and in the North of its range in low shrubbery above the tree line.
Throughout. In Estado Rio de Janeiro found at<8E>Itatiaia<8E>above the tree line [2, 3] Remold H., Willis E. O. unpubl. , in Estado S<C4>o Paulo found at<8E>Mogi das Cruzes, Ipiranga ^40 , Itapetininga, Itarar<CA> ^119 , Fazenda Intervales. <NTo 1800 meters
12253 3 examples of song, S<C4>o Francisco da Paula, RG, LNS 39106, recorded by T. Parker, III.:
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Character status: partial decoder; angle-bracket byte markers are preserved
Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic
Structured account sections
Description
15 cm. Buff brown and rather long tailed. Head grayish-brown becoming rusty brown. Upperside streaked blackish. Sides of head and cheeks blackish. Narrow white superciliary. Shoulders gray. Underside light buff. <NThe female has broader streaks on top. <NThe juvenile is barred on the belly. Throat white.
Voice
Call "naa", short "dic" ^119 . Song a sequence of "tik tik titi...." sounds, vocalization 1 . possibly duets.
Behavior
Forages in high grass, reeds or in bushes, frequently sits exposed: usually in pairs.
Habitat and status
Uncommon in open grassy areas close to water: reed beds, tall grass areas, and in the North of its range in low shrubbery above the tree line.
Distribution
Throughout. In Estado Rio de Janeiro found at<8E>Itatiaia<8E>above the tree line [2, 3] Remold H., Willis E. O. unpubl. , in Estado S<C4>o Paulo found at<8E>Mogi das Cruzes, Ipiranga ^40 , Itapetininga, Itarar<CA> ^119 , Fazenda Intervales. <NTo 1800 meters
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative
Release-specific historical evidence — the three releases remain separate; none is canonical
Release history
This work was published as three separate releases: the Disc 3 release first, the Disc 2 release later, and the Disc 1 release in 2011. Differences between them are historical release differences and are never merged.
Disc 3in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 2in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 1 (2011)in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
The account in the Disc 1 (2011) revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
Historical taxonomy
WORLD
donacospiza albifrons
Long-tailed Reed-Finch
Emberizidae
Emberizine Sparrows
CLEMENTS
donacospiza albifrons
Long-tailed Reed-Finch
Emberizidae
Emberizine Sparrows
AOU_HM
donacospiza albifrons
Long-tailed Reed-Finch
Emberizidae
Emberizine Sparrows
Recordings
12253.mp3
12253 3 examples of song, S<C4>o Francisco da Paula, RG, LNS 39106, recorded by T. Parker, III.
