Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula), photo 1 — Photo: Roberto Goldschmidt · CC0

Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula), photo 2 — Photo: Roberto Goldschmidt · CC0

Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula), photo 3 — Photo: Ricardo Barrientos · CC0

Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula), photo 4 — Photo: Ricardo Barrientos · CC0

Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula), photo 5 — Photo: Santiago Martín-Bravo · CC BY 4.0

Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula), photo 6 — Photo: Santiago Martín-Bravo · CC BY 4.0

Chucao Tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula), photo 8 — Photo: Barbara 05 · Public domain

What the Chucao Tapaculo sounds like

Sonogram of the Chucao Tapaculo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Valentina Paz · Tomé (near Tome), Concepción, Bío Bío, Chile · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Alex Toledo · Call, song · Puerto Montt, Llanquihue, Los Lagos, Chile · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The chucao tapaculo is 18.5 to 19 cm (7.3 to 7.5 in) long. Three specimens of unknown sex weighed 42.6 to 45.4 g (1.50 to 1.60 oz) and a single male specimen weighed 53.7 g (1.89 oz). The adult is dusky brown above; much of the face and the throat and upper breast are rufous. The rest of the breast is dark gray with white bars and the flanks and vent are reddish brown to olive brown. Voice: The chucao tapaculo has a loud song beginning and ending with soft churrs surrounding four or five clearer, louder, and higher pitched notes .

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When to see the Chucao Tapaculo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chucao Tapaculo

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Chile Argentina

About the Chucao Tapaculo

The chucao tapaculo is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae. It is found in central Chile and adjacent Argentina; it has also been recorded in Chile's Magallanes Province.

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Easily confused with

White-throated TapaculoScelorchilus albicollisThe adult of the nominate subspecies of white-throated tapaculo has a cinnamon forehead, a bold white supercilium, and gray-brown upper parts.

Side by side: Chucao Tapaculo vs White-throated Tapaculo

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