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Long-tailed cinclodes

Long-tailed cinclodes
Cinclodes pabsti - Long-tailed cinclodes.JPG
A long-tailed cinclodes at Urupema, Santa Catarina state, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Genus: Cinclodes
Species: C. pabsti
Binomial name
Cinclodes pabsti
Sick, 1969

The long-tailed cinclodes (Cinclodes pabsti) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is endemic to Brazil.

Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and pastureland. Rarer than previously believed, it is uplisted from a species of Least Concern to Near Threatened status in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

The scientific name commemorates the Brazilian botanist Guido Frederico João Pabst.



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