Some Furnariidae of lake Titicaca

Here is an interesting family, whose members at times think they're Motacillidae, or Paridae, or other fun songbird groups.

This is Upucerthia jelskii, the plain-breasted earthcreeper:



This one is called Leptasthenura andicola, the andean tit-spinetail:

These two birds (look closely) are the always heard, not always seen, totoreros. In english, they are boringly know as wren-like rushbirds. In Latin, they are even more boringly known as Phleocryptes melanops:

This cool bird is a slender-billed miner, Geositta tenuirostris:

Helpful hint: it's called a miner because it builds in tunel-like cavities to nest in.

Another miner, not a cool but important, the rather lark-like common miner, Geositta cunicularia:

The very common Cinclodes fuscus:

And the much less common Cinclodes atacamensis:

One of two common species of Asthenes, the cordilleran canastero Asthenes modesta:

I hope I am doing a good job of conveying the diversity of the Lake Titicaca avifauna.