Cinclodes
Genus of birds
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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.
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| 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 | |
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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 |
.jpg) | Chestnut-winged cinclodes | Cinclodes albidiventris | northern Andes |
 | Cream-winged cinclodes | Cinclodes albiventris | puna grassland |
 | Olrog's cinclodes | Cinclodes olrogi | Sierras de Córdoba |
_(cropped).jpg) | Grey-flanked cinclodes | Cinclodes oustaleti | Chile |
.jpg) | 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 |
_(15773039218).jpg) | 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]
