Magellanic Tapaculo Scytalopus magellanicus Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (18)
- Monotypic
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Dutch | Magelhaentapaculo |
English | Magellanic Tapaculo |
English (United States) | Magellanic Tapaculo |
French | Mérulaxe des Andes |
French (French Guiana) | Mérulaxe des Andes |
German | Magellantapaculo |
Japanese | タンビオタテドリ |
Norwegian | magellantapakulo |
Polish | krytonosek magellański |
Russian | Магелланов тапакуло |
Slovak | tapakulo vývratový |
Spanish | Churrín Magallánico |
Spanish (Argentina) | Churrín Andino |
Spanish (Chile) | Churrín del sur |
Spanish (Spain) | Churrín magallánico |
Swedish | magellantapakul |
Turkish | Macellan Tapakolası |
Ukrainian | Тапакуло андійський |
Revision Notes
Vicente Pantoja and César Muñoz revised the account as part of a partnership with Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile (ROC). Andrew J. Spencer contributed to the Sounds and Vocal Behaviors page. JoAnn Hackos, Miriam Kowarski, Robin K. Murie, and Daphne R. Walmer copy edited the account. Arnau Bonan Barfull curated the media. Huy C. Truong updated the distribution map.
Scytalopus magellanicus ("Gmelin, JF", 1789)
Definitions
- SCYTALOPUS
- magellani / magellanica / magellanicus
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Introduction
"Millenary bird that begins telling the time from dawn, at morning, at noon and at sunset. His song tells the time in tune with nature, cosmovision, universe and the rest, the great Cordillera, plains, rivers, lakes, volcanoes and seas, the great spirit and the four guardians who take care of the Mapuche world as 'Earthly Paradise'"... (poem modified from Aillapan and Rozzi 2001) (1)
Endemic to the temperate rainforest of Chile and Argentina, the Magellanic Tapaculo is the southernmost member of the Scytalopus genus of tapaculos. It is closely related to the Dusky Tapaculo (Scytalopus fuscus), which was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Magellanic Tapaculo. The two species are almost entirely allopatric, but do overlap in a few areas. Unlike other members of the genus, its natural history is moderately known, although a wide information gap still exists related to its reproductive behavior and other aspects of its natural history.
Similar to other members of the Scytalopus species, the dark plumage is sometimes slightly lighter than in Dusky Tapaculo, but differences in vocalizations are the main way of differentiating both species, especially in the few places where both species are sympatric. Magellanic Tapaculo can be located by their loud and repetitive pa-tra pa-tra pa-tra pa-tra vocalization. Some individuals also have a characteristic white crown that is not present in the Dusky Tapaculo.
Magellanic Tapaculo lives mostly in temperate rainforests at lower elevations, where they stay hidden inside Chusquea bamboo, close to moist draws or creeks within or at the edge of the forest. There are also there are highland populations above 2,000 m in the central Andes of Chile and Argentina.
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding