Order
Passeriformes
Family
Rhinocryptidae
Genus
Scytalopus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Nariño Tapaculo Scytalopus vicinior

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Tom Johnson
Version: 1.0 — Published January 24, 2014

Diet and Foraging

Diet

Nariño Tapaculo is insectivorous. The diet is not known in much detail, but stomach contents (n = 14) included small unidentified flying insects, 2 grasshoppers (Acrididae; 1 small, 1 large at 4-5 cm), beetles (including a scarabid 2 cm long and a beetle larva), and other arthropods, including a millipede (Diplopoda) and unidentified larvae (Krabbe and Schulenberg 1997, 2003).

Foraging Behavior

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and T. Johnson (2014). Nariño Tapaculo (Scytalopus vicinior), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.nartap2.01
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