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The white-browed tapaculo is 10.5 cm (4.1 in) long. The nominate adult's most striking features are its long white supercilium, throat, and upper breast. The back and wings are grayish brown to brownish gray. The lower breast is gray. The rump is brown with fine bars. The flanks, belly, and crissum (the area around the cloaca) are pale olive-brown with black bars. Subspecies S. s. santabarbarae is darker, with upper parts trending to chestnut and the underparts being blackish-brown instead of gray. Voice: The white-browed tapaculo's song is "a single burred note...followed after short pause by drawn-out descending “churr”..., repeated for several minutes at regular pace" .
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When to see the White-browed Tapaculo
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the White-browed Tapaculo
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the White-browed Tapaculo
The white-browed tapaculo is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae. It is found in northwestern Argentina.
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Easily confused with
Ancash TapaculoScytalopus affinisThe male Ancash tapaculo's head and upper back are gray and the rest of the upper parts dark brown.
Magdalena TapaculoScytalopus rodrigueziThe Magdalena tapaculo, also known as the Upper Magdalena tapaculo, is a member of the tapaculos, a group of Neotropical birds.
Unicolored TapaculoScytalopus unicolorThe unicolored tapaculo is 10.5 cm (4.1 in) long.
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