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Planalto Tapaculo

Scytalopus pachecoi

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestSmall · 15 g
Planalto Tapaculo (Scytalopus pachecoi), photo 1
Photo: Bornschein, Marcos Ricardo; Maurício, Giovanni Nachtigall; Lopes, Ricardo Belmonte; Mata, Helena; Bonatto, Sandro L. · CC BY 4.0
Planalto Tapaculo (Scytalopus pachecoi), photo 2
Photo: (c) Marcelo Schmidt Roberti, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Planalto Tapaculo (Scytalopus pachecoi), photo 3
Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

ID tip

The Planalto tapaculo is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs about 15 g (0.53 oz). The male's upperparts are mainly dark gray and the underparts paler gray. The flanks are buff with dark bars, which differentiate it from the similar but unbarred mouse-colored tapaculo. The female is browner and the juvenile has not been described. Voice: The Planalto tapaculo's song contains a long series of notes starting at a rate of two or three per second and accelerating into a trill . This compares to five notes per second in the faster song of the mouse-colored tapaculo. The Planalto tapaculo has a distinctive, monosyllabic contact call and a loud alarm call.

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When to see the Planalto Tapaculo

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

Where to see the Planalto Tapaculo

Regular range

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

Argentina Brazil

About the Planalto Tapaculo

The Planalto tapaculo is a small passerine bird in family Rhinocryptidae. It is found in southeastern Brazil and extreme northeastern Argentina.

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Easily confused with

Diademed TapaculoScytalopus schulenbergiThe diademed tapaculo is 10 cm (3.9 in) long; two males weighed 15.2 and 17 g (0.54 and 0.60 oz). Tschudi's TapaculoScytalopus acutirostrisTschudi's tapaculo is 10.5 cm (4.1 in) long. Magdalena TapaculoScytalopus rodrigueziThe Magdalena tapaculo, also known as the Upper Magdalena tapaculo, is a member of the tapaculos, a group of Neotropical birds.

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