Diet and Foraging

Microhabitat for Foraging

Forages for prey in the litter of the understory, in lower branches, and in soil (5 Couve, E., C. F. Vidal, and J. Ruiz (2016). Aves de Chile - Sus islas oceánicas y Península Antártica. FS- Editorial Fantástico Sur, Punta Arenas, Chile. Close , 48 Rozzi, R., and J. E. Jiménez (2014). Magellanic Sub-Antarctic ornithology: First Decade of Long-Term Bird Studies at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile. University of North Texas Press, TX, USA. Close ). It can search for invertebrates along creeks, under rocks, and in wet mud. When it rains, it is more active in search of food (53 Landbeck, L (1857). Descripción de una nueva especie de pájaro chileno del jénero Scytalopus. Anales de la Universidad de Chile 15(1):182-184. Close ). It has been reported at 12.3 m height in Nothofagus dombeyi tree (49 Godoy-Güinao, J., and I. A. Díaz (2018). First records of Rhynocryptid understory birds in the canopy of Chilean temperate rainforests. Ornitología Neotropical 29:297-300. Close ).

Food Capture and Consumption

Like other species of tapaculo, Magellanic Tapaculo searches for prey in the leaf litter of the understory, using its feet (5 Couve, E., C. F. Vidal, and J. Ruiz (2016). Aves de Chile - Sus islas oceánicas y Península Antártica. FS- Editorial Fantástico Sur, Punta Arenas, Chile. Close ); it also gleans insects from leaves and branches inside shrubs and lower vegetation, as described for other species of the genera like Spillmann's Tapaculo (Scytalopus spillmanni) (54 Castaño-Villa, G. J., R. Santisteban-Arenas, A. Hoyos-Jaramillo, J. V. Estévez-Varón, and F. E. Fontúrbel (2019). Foraging behavioural traits of tropical insectivorous birds lead to dissimilar communities in contrasting forest habitats. Wildlife Biology 2019(1):1-6. Close ).

Major Food Items

It feeds on a variety of insects such as the larvae and adults of Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Formicidae, Apidae, and other arthropods (arachnids and myriapods) and annelids (53 Landbeck, L (1857). Descripción de una nueva especie de pájaro chileno del jénero Scytalopus. Anales de la Universidad de Chile 15(1):182-184. Close , 18 Rozzi, R., J. J. Armesto, A. Correa, J. C. Torres-Mura, and M. Sallaberry (1996). Avifauna of primary temperate forests of uninhabited islands of Chiloe Archipelago, Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 69(1):125-139. Close , 9 Martínez, D., and G. González (2017). Las aves de Chile. Guía de Campo y Breve Historia Natural. Ediciones del Naturalista, Santiago, Chile. Close ). It most likely eats other small arthropods and some berries, as do other Chilean forest tapaculos (55 Correa, A., J. J. Armesto, R. P. Schlatter, R. Rozzi, and J. C. Torres-Mura (1990). La dieta del Chucao (Scelorchilus rubecula), un Passeriforme terrícola endémico del bosque templado húmedo de Sudamérica austral. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 63:197-202. Close ). In Cape Horn during the winter, it feeds almost exclusively on beetles (Coleoptera) (56 Crawshay, R. (1907) The birds of Tierra del Fuego. Bernard Quaritch, London. Close , 57 Reynolds, P. W. (1935). Notes on the birds of Cape Horn. Ibis 77(1):65–101. Close ). Other related Scytalopus have been rarely found with vegetable matter in their stomachs (22 Krabbe, N., and T. S. Schulenberg (1997). Species limits and natural history of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), with descriptions of the Ecuadorian taxa, including three new species. In Studies in Neotropical ornithology honoring Ted Parker (J. V. Remsen, Editor), Ornithological Monographs 47. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 46–88. Close ).

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