The rufous-capped spinetail (''Synallaxis ruficapilla'') is a species of
bird in the family
Furnariidae. It is found in the southern
Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and th ...
. Its natural
habitats are
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Description
TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...
, subtropical or tropical moist
montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.
References
rufous-capped spinetail
Birds of the Atlantic Forest
rufous-capped spinetail
Taxa named by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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