Brown-rumped Tapaculo Scytalopus latebricola Scientific name definitions
- NT Near Threatened
- Names (19)
- Monotypic
Text last updated January 1, 2003
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Catalan | tapacul de carpó bru |
Croatian | magdalenska strmorepka |
Dutch | Bruinstuittapaculo |
English | Brown-rumped Tapaculo |
English (United States) | Brown-rumped Tapaculo |
French | Mérulaxe à croupion brun |
French (Canada) | Mérulaxe à croupion brun |
German | Hellkehltapaculo |
Japanese | ハイムネオタテドリ |
Norwegian | brungumptapakulo |
Polish | krytonosek brunatny |
Russian | Буропоясничный тапакуло |
Serbian | Smeđoleđi tapakulo |
Slovak | tapakulo hnedkavý |
Spanish | Churrín Ratona |
Spanish (Spain) | Churrín ratona |
Swedish | brungumpad tapakul |
Turkish | Kahverengi Karınlı Tapakola |
Ukrainian | Тапакуло бурий |
Scytalopus latebricola Bangs, 1899
Definitions
- SCYTALOPUS
- latebricola
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Introduction
The Brown-rumped Tapaculo is one of two species of tapaculos that are restricted to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Colombia. "Brown-rumped" is a name that applies equally well to many species of Scytalopus tapaculos, but this species has few other distinctive features: it is predominately gray, with brown rump and flanks. This species occurs in humid montane forests on the upper slopes of the Santa Martas, at 2000-3660 m; the other tapaculo found in this region, the Santa Marta Tapaculo (Scytalopus sanctaemartae), is found at lower elevations, and also usually has a white spot on the forecrown. Like most other species of Andean Scytalopus, the Brown-rumped Tapaculo is heard more frequently than it is seen. This tapaculo forages for small invertebrates near the ground in dense understory; otherwise the biology of the Brown-rumped Tapaculo is all but unknown.
Field Identification
11·5 cm. A medium-sized grey tapaculo commonly with dusky-barred brown flanks; bill elevated basally and compressed laterally. Adult is dark brownish gray above, more or less washed with dark brown on back, with rump and uppertail coverts tawny-brown, wings and tail dusky brown; throat, breast and belly paler brownish gray, flanks and lower belly relatively bright rufous-chestnut and either plain or narrowly barred blackish; iris brown; bill black, base of mandible dusky pinkish; tarsus light to dark brown, sometimes mottled with brownish-pink. Juvenile is brown, each feather with black center, giving squamate or barred appearance.
Systematics History
Subspecies
Distribution
Santa Marta Mts, in N Colombia.
Habitat
Movement
Diet and Foraging
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Song seven seconds long, a few introductory notes followed by rapid trill at 4·3 kHz (first overtone; fundamental audible) and pace 24 notes per second. Scold much like that of S. meridanus, 0·7–0·8 seconds long, at irregular intervals of 0·5–3 seconds, a rapid series of notes (20 per second) falling from six to 5·6 kHz (first overtone; fundamental almost equally loud), usually after 1 or a few slightly lower-pitched introductory notes, or similar but pitched at c. 4 kHz with almost equally loud fundamental and second overtone; call a nasal, high-pitched “szeow” at intervals of 3–4 seconds, up to 15 times or more.
Breeding
Conservation Status
Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near Threatened. Fairly common within its small range. Occurs in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Park.
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding