Asthenes dorbignyi
Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
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 |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Creamy-breasted Canastero sighting in Lauca National Park on a given day, based on 384 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 27th most-seen of the 112 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Creamy-breasted Canastero in Lauca National Park on a given day, against about 30% in January and February, the lowest months. That is one of Lauca National Park's driest months, with about 5 mm of rain against 150 mm in January.
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.
Only Lauca National Park, in our data
Lauca National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Creamy-breasted Canastero sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Asthenes
The closest relatives of the Creamy-breasted Canastero that you can see in Lauca National Park (genus Asthenes, Typical Canasteros and Thistletails) are Cordilleran Canastero (about 50%) and Canyon Canastero (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 Lauca National Park (384 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.
