The long-tailed cinclodes (''Cinclodes pabsti'') is a species of

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 ...

in the family Furnariidae. It is

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. Its natural

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s are temperate

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and pastureland. Rarer than previously believed, it is uplisted from a species of Least Concern to Near Threatened status in the 2007

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.See BirdLife International (2007a,b). The scientific name commemorates the Brazilian botanist Guido Frederico João Pabst.

Footnotes

References

* BirdLife International (2007a):
2006-2007 Red List status changes
]. Retrieved 2007-AUG-26. * BirdLife International (2007b)
Long-tailed Cinclodes - BirdLife Species Factsheet
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