Ash-browed spinetail

The ash-browed spinetail (Cranioleuca curtata) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

The ash-browed spinetail is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 14 to 21 g (0.49 to 0.74 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a supercilium that varies from bold whitish to obscure dingy gray. The rest of their face is dull brownish with some pale streaks on the ear coverts. Their forehead is brown with some reddish chestnut, their crown reddish chestnut, and their back rich brown that becomes increasingly reddish by the uppertail coverts. Their wings are reddish chestnut; their flight feathers are slightly paler with dark fuscous tips. Their tail is dark reddish chestnut; it is graduated and the feathers sometimes lack barbs on their tips. Their chin is very pale brownish gray, their throat browner with light streaking, and their underparts dull browish with slightily richer brown flanks. Their iris is chestnut to brown, their maxilla dark brown to blackish, their mandible pinkish (usually with a dark tip), and their legs and feet olive-greenish to mustard-yellow. Juveniles have a strong supercilium, a mostly brown crown with some chestnut, and ochraceous rufous underparts. Subspecies C. c. cisandina has darker and more chestnut crown, wings, and tail than the nominate, and also a darker brown back and darker grayish tones on the underparts. C. c. debilis is similar to cisandina but overall paler with a chestnut forehead.