Pale-breasted Spinetail (Synallaxis albescens) |
Pictures (click on them to enlarge) | ||
---|---|---|
© Erik Toorman | © Ronald Teulings | © Carl Beel |
© Erik Toorman | watch the tail © Alexander Elias |
The Pale-breasted Spinetail is common in wasteland at the edge of Paramaribo, like for instance empty lots in Tourtonne (north) or at near the campus (west) and also near Zanderij JAP-airport. The birds build a large nest, a ball of small sticks with a small, long entrance. This does not prevent the Striped cuckoo to lay its eggs in the nest and so let the spinetails rear its young. Photo of a Pale-breasted spinetail, made by Erik Toorman in August 2005 near the campus of the Anton de Kom (Adek) university at the Leysweg in Paramaribo and a picture made by Ronald Teulings, also in Suriname. carl beel saw the bird with the long tail near berlijn on the savanna in October 2013. Alexander Elias recorded the sound of 4 Pale-breastted Spinetails calling their Surinames name, Fityo. Dominiek Plouvier has made a video of this spinetail. |
Birdsounds (click on them to listen) | ||
---|---|---|
Sound recording of a Pale-breasted Spinetail © Alexander Elias |
Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see) | ||
---|---|---|
Video recording of a Pale-breasted Spinetail © ; |
|
|
Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
---|---|
The 494 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The 25 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |