Asthenes pudibunda
Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The canyon canastero (Asthenes pudibunda) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Peru and far-northern Chile. Some authors have treated the rusty-fronted canastero (A. ottonis) and maquis canastero (A. heterura) as subspecies of the canyon canastero and others have treated the three as a superspecies. However, genetic data show that the canyon canastero is most closely related to the Vilcabamba thistletail (A. vilcabambae).
The canyon canastero is 15 to 17 cm (5.9 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 13 to 17 g (0.46 to 0.60 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a thin buff supercilium and dark brownish lores on an otherwise gray-brown face. Their crown is warm dark brown and their back and rump a slightly paler brown. Their wings are dull reddish brown. Their uppertail coverts are chestnut-rufous and their tail a more rufous brown than the back. Their chin and upper throat are pale tawny-orange... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Canyon Canastero sighting in Lauca National Park on a given day, based on 147 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 59th most-seen of the 112 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and November
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Canyon Canastero in Lauca National Park on a given day, against about 10% in February–March and August, the lowest months. Those are among Lauca National Park's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 150 mm in January.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Canyon Canastero sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Lauca National Park, in our data
Lauca National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Canyon Canastero sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Asthenes
The closest relatives of the Canyon Canastero that you can see in Lauca National Park (genus Asthenes, Typical Canasteros and Thistletails) are Cordilleran Canastero (about 50%) and Creamy-breasted Canastero (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Canyon Canastero is recorded against all the birds logged in Lauca National Park (147 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
