Streaked Tit-Spinetail

Streaked Tit-Spinetail

Leptasthenura striata

Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR
Daily sighting probability ~30% · Possible
at Lauca National Park

In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%

255 Verified sightings at Lauca National Park From 2019 to 2026
255 In 1 park
January Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Streaked Tit-Spinetail

The streak-backed tit-spinetail, or streaked tit-spinetail, (Leptasthenura striata) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Chile and Peru. The streak-backed tit-spinetail is 14.5 to 16.5 cm (5.7 to 6.5 in) long and weighs about 8.5 to 10.5 g (0.30 to 0.37 oz). It is a small-bodied, long-tailed furnariid with a short bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have an indistinct dirty white supercilium on an otherwise blackish and whitish streaked face. Their crown is black and heavily striped with rufous. Their back is streaked with dusky brown and tawny buff that diminish to the mostly plain olive brown rump. Their wing coverts are blackish with wide cinnamon rufous edges. Their flight feathers are dusky brown with cinnamon rufous bases that show as a patch on the closed wing. Their tail's central pair of feathers are dusky brown with much pale gray-brown... Wikipedia →

Sounds

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Chile · 2011

© Andrew Spencer · XC90516 · CC BY-NC-ND 2.5

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Chile · 2015

© Fabrice Schmitt · XC336428 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Peru · 2009

© Peter Boesman · XC225003 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Lauca National Park 🇨🇱 Chile
~30%

More parks will be added in future updates.

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Arequipa 🇵🇪 Peru
<5%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Streaked Tit-Spinetail in Lauca National Park?

Possible

About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Streaked Tit-Spinetail sighting in Lauca National Park on a given day, based on 255 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 41st most-seen of the 112 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Streaked Tit-Spinetail in Lauca National Park?

January, May and August–October

In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Streaked Tit-Spinetail in Lauca National Park on a given day, against about 10% in March and July, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Streaked Tit-Spinetail?

Between 8 and 11 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Streaked Tit-Spinetail sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Where else can you see a Streaked Tit-Spinetail?

Only Lauca National Park, in our data

Lauca National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Streaked Tit-Spinetail sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Where does the Streaked Tit-Spinetail sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Streaked Tit-Spinetail is recorded against all the birds logged in Lauca National Park (255 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.

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