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Azara's spinetail

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ908845 ↗
Source-derived summary

Azara's spinetail (Synallaxis azarae) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

Taxonomy and systematics

Azara's spinetail has these nine subspecies:

S. a. elegantior Sclater, PL, 1862

S. a. media Chapman, 1914

S. a. ochracea Zimmer, JT, 1936

S. a. fruticicola Taczanowski, 1880

S. a. infumata Zimmer, JT, 1925

S. a. urubambae Zimmer, JT, 1935

S. a. azarae D'Orbigny, 1835

S. a.

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The public source identifies “Azara's spinetail” as species of bird. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Azara's, spinetail and species.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1862, 1914, 1936, 1880—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Azara's, spinetail and species providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q908845. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1862, 1914, 1936 and 1880.

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This entry incorporates text from “Azara's spinetail” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.