''Asthenes modesta serrana'' is a small

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bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

, a subspecies of the

cordilleran canastero The cordilleran canastero (''Asthenes modesta'') is a species of bird in the family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland ...

. It is found in the

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, in La Rioja Province of northern

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, at an altitude of about 3200 m.

References

Asthenes Birds described in 1986 {{Furnariidae-stub