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Brown-rumped Tapaculo

Scytalopus latebricola

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedEndemicInvertebratesForestSmall · 23 g
Brown-rumped Tapaculo (Scytalopus latebricola), photo 1
Photo: Cullen Hanks · CC BY 4.0
Brown-rumped Tapaculo (Scytalopus latebricola), photo 2
Photo: Cullen Hanks · CC BY 4.0
Brown-rumped Tapaculo (Scytalopus latebricola), photo 3
Photo: (c) Cullen Hanks, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Cullen Hanks · cc-by
Brown-rumped Tapaculo (Scytalopus latebricola), photo 4
Photo: Cullen Hanks · CC BY 4.0
Brown-rumped Tapaculo (Scytalopus latebricola), photo 5
Photo: Cullen Hanks · CC BY 4.0
Brown-rumped Tapaculo (Scytalopus latebricola), photo 6
Photo: Cullen Hanks · CC BY 4.0
Brown-rumped Tapaculo (Scytalopus latebricola), photo 7
Photo: (c) Dan Vickers, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The brown-rumped tapaculo is 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long. The adult's upper parts are dark brownish gray and the rump is tawny brown. Its throat, breast, and belly are the same hue as the upper parts but paler. The flanks and lower belly are bright reddish chestnut, sometimes with blackish bars. The juvenile is brown with a barred appearance.

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When to see the Brown-rumped Tapaculo

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Brown-rumped Tapaculo

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia

About the Brown-rumped Tapaculo

The brown-rumped tapaculo is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae. It is endemic to Colombia.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Rufous-vented Tapaculo (Scytalopus femoralis) Rufous-vented TapaculoScytalopus femoralisThe rufous-vented tapaculo is 12.5 cm (4.9 in) long. Perija Tapaculo (Scytalopus perijanus) Perija TapaculoScytalopus perijanusThe Perijá tapaculo is a small bird, 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) in length with an average mass of 17 to 18 grams (about 0.6 oz). Trilling TapaculoScytalopus parvirostrisThe trilling tapaculo is 10.5 cm (4.1 in) long.

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