Asthenes dorbignyi
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The rusty-vented canastero or creamy-breasted canastero (Asthenes dorbignyi) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia. The rusty-vented canastero's taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC and HBW treat arequipae as a separate species, calling it the "dark-winged" and "Arequipa" canasteros respectively. The IOC treats huancavelicae as the pale-tailed canastero with usheri as a subspecies of it. HBW separately treats huancavelicae as the "Huancavelicae canastero" and usheri as the "white-tailed canastero".
To further complicate matters, all five of these taxa have plumage, morphological, vocal, behavioral... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Paz | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Cochabamba | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 3 | Arequipa | 🇵🇪 Peru |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Creamy-breasted Canastero sighting in Cochabamba on a given day, based on 22 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 66th most-seen of the 112 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Creamy-breasted Canastero in Cochabamba on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, June, August and November, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Creamy-breasted Canastero sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 3
Of the 3 cities where we can rate Creamy-breasted Canastero sightings, Cochabamba ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in La Paz (Bolivia, about 50%).
Same family: Furnariidae
The closest relatives of the Creamy-breasted Canastero that you can see in Cochabamba (family Furnariidae, Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers) are Rufous Hornero (about 80%) and Wren-like Rushbird (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Creamy-breasted Canastero is recorded against all the birds logged in Cochabamba (22 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
