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	New tapaculos from Colombia
		Unidentified tapaculos have been observed in the northern Cordillera Central for a decade, and when Niels Krabbe examined recordings of their songs, his suspicions arose that they were a new species.
		Its discovery is similar to Stiles’s Tapaculo, since the presence of an unknown tapaculo in the Finca Merenberg mountains of the southern Cordillera Central has been known since the 1980s.
		Tapaculos are generally dark coloured and skulk in thick forest undergrowth, making them notoriously difficult to study in the field.
	www.birdlife.org /news/news/2005/08/tapaculo.html (601 words)

	Tapaculo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tapaculos are a group of small suboscine passeriform birds with numerous species, found in South America.
		They are usually placed in a distinct family Rhinocryptidae; more recent research (Rice, 2005) indicates that they might be better merged into the Formicariidae as tribe Rhinocryptini, as they are closer to the antthrushes than either is to the formicariid antpittas.
		The tail is cocked and pointed towards the head, and the name tapaculo derives from the Spanish for "cover your behind".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tapaculo (243 words)

	Shy Cloud Forest Birds Identified as New Species
		Unidentified tapaculos have been observed in the northern Cordillera Central for a decade, but it took an expert at bird identification who examined recordings of their songs to identify the new species.
		The species Stiles’s tapaculo is found throughout a 300 kilometer (200 mile) stretch of the Cordillera Central where it occupies cloud forests between 1,420 and 2,130 meters (4,650 and 6,988 feet) in altitude.
		Currently the Upper Magdalena tapaculo is known from two localities on the east slope of the Cordillera Central at 2,000—2,300 meter elevation.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/aug2005/2005-08-24-01.asp (779 words)

	BrazilStar
		The classification of a newly discovered plant or animal species is a leisurely affair, involving much scolarly research and a formal peer reviewed description, with figures published in a proper scientific journal, before the public at large is informed.
		The wet tall-grass tapaculo, clearly a member of the genus SCYTALOPUS, is found in only three areas, amounting to less than 10 hectares.
		At one time, the marshes of the region and the habitat of the then-unknown species of tapaculo were much more extensive.
	www.sentex.net /~tntcomm/kwfn/BrazilStar.htm (504 words)

	Trip List - Ventures Birding & Natural History Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These tapaculos are not the little fl mice we normally associate with South America, but large rail-like species with great names.
		The songs of the Black-throated Huet-Huet and the Chucao Tapaculo rang out from the damp forest and with a bit of luck and patience, they were not too difficult to see.
		Watching one of these tapaculos walking along the roadside with a pair of Crag Chilias working the nearby bushes was quite a unique experience.
	www.birdventures.com /Reports/Chile04list.htm (957 words)

	New Bird Species Found in Colombia
		The shy, dark-colored birds, which live in thick forest, are mostly identified by their songs, and it was their calls that distinguished the two new species, BirdLife International reports.
		Currently the upper Magdalena tapaculo is known from two localities on the east slope of the Cordillera Central at approximately 2165 to 2500 feet.
		Tapaculos are generally dark colored and skulk in thick forest undergrowth, making them difficult to study in the field.
	www.birdwatchersdigest.com /site/funbirds/birdnews/new_species.aspx (448 words)

	Ochre-flanked tapaculo - AVES DE CHILE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Abdomen, flanks and under tail coverts reddish brown with yellowish tint in the abdomen.
		Similar to Dasky Tapaculo but notably larger, it's found between the thickness of the large forests, walking by soil and scratching it like a hen in search of food, being possible to listen it.
		On the other hand, its steps are silent and due to its dark gray plumage, it is easy to confuse it with a little mouse at the first moment.
	www.avesdechile.cl /323en.htm (328 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Nagano@ugusta: Headlines for New bird discovered in southern Brazilian city 04/27/98
		Researchers at the Federal University of Parana said the tiny, gray-fl bird that they captured in 1997 also had a unique habitat: a marshy area inside the city of Curitiba, 420 miles southwest of Rio de Janeiro.
		But closer study of the lowland tapaculo determined that 11 factors, from the shape of its feathers to its bone structure, were unique, Bornschein said.
		The lowland tapaculo is the second new bird species that Bornschein and Reinert have discovered.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/042798/nag_bird.shtml (278 words)

	Brasilia Tapaculo - Scytalopus novacapitalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Brasilia Tapaculo has dark grey upperparts and whitish underparts with a pale grey throat and breast and rufous thighs and flanks.
		Like all tapaculos, they are very difficult to see as they scurry about in the undergrowth.
		Fortunately, it sings and responds to tape playback but it was not such a "cinch" for me as is suggested in the sitenotes.
	www.arthurgrosset.com /sabirds/brasiliatapaculo.html (149 words)

	TAPACULO
		The Tapaculos are a family of eight small passerine bird species found in South America.
		The tail is cocked and pointed towards the head, and apparently the word tapaculo derives from the phrase "cover your bottom" in a local language.
		Most species lay two or three white eggs in a covered environment, whether it be a burrow, hole in a tree or domed nest.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/TAPACULO (167 words)

	Tapaculo family
		The Tapaculos are the mice of the avian world.
		Among these are Huet-huets, Turcas, and Gallitos of Chile and Argentina but the "tapaculo of tapaculos" must be the Ocellated Tapaculo (left) of montane bamboo patches in the high Andes.
		Recent biochemical evidence (summarized in Sibley and Ahlquist (990) indicates that the tapaculos are a distinct family whose closest relatives are the gnateaters (Conopophagidae) and the ground antbirds (Formicariidae).
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/tapaculos.html (771 words)

	AVIFAUNA - Picchio Verde. . . l'altro web site - Birds: DNA Sibley's list,4 (Passeriformes)
		A new Scytalopus tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae) from Bolivia, with notes on other Bolivian members of the genus and the magellanicus superspecies.
		The Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae) of Ecuador, with descriptions of three new species and notes on extralimital forms.
		The furtive, sedentary Scytalopus tapaculos present a special situation that is not expected to be found in many other groups.
	digilander.libero.it /avifauna/classificazione/passeriformes4.htm (3190 words)

	Recognize Scytalopus rodriguezi as a valid species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		(2005) described a new tapaculo from the 2000-2300 meter range on the east slope Cordillera Central at the head of the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.
		Their conclusion that this taxon represents a new species is based on vocal and genetic evidence, and three specimens.
		Rationale is similar to that for Scytalopus stilesi: the new taxon differs little in plumage or morphometrics from congeners, but has a distinctive voice and differs genetically.
	www.museum.lsu.edu /~Remsen/SACCprop195.html (439 words)

	TAPACULO - Online Information article about TAPACULO
		Wren, when establishing the genus to which it is now referred; but some ten years after Johannes See also:
		Muller found that Scytalopus, together with the true Tapaculo, which was first described by Kittlitz in 183o, possessed anatomical characters that removed them far from any position previously assigned to them, and determined their true See also:
		Garrod in 1876 and 1877 who finally divested the Family of these aliens, but until examples of some of the other genera have been anatomically examined it may not be safe to say that they all belong to the Pteroptochidae.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/TAPACULO.html (621 words)

	A new Scytalopus tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae) from Bolivia, with notes on other Bolivian members of the genus and the ...
		A new Scytalopus tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae) from Bolivia, with notes on other Bolivian members of the genus and the Magellanicus complex.
		Author: Whitney, Bret M. In Bolivia in 1992 I tape-recorded and observed several individuals of an undescribed tapaculo of the systematically complex genus Scytalopus in humid-temperate forest near the city of La Paz.
		The new species, the Diademed Tapaculo (Scytalopus schulenbergi), is described and its distribution and vocalizations are compared with some other members of the genus, mostly in...
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1-16350147.html (184 words)

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		Tapaculos Rhinocryptidae of the genus Scytapolus form a complex group of many taxa close in morpholgy but yet genetically often quite distinct.
		Stiles's Tapaculo does not qualify as 'threatened' according to these criteria but it should be regarded as 'near-threatened'.
		Although the song was quite unlike any other known tapaculo song, it was considered possible that it belonged to White-crowned Tapaculo S atratus confusus of which the vocalizations were unknown at the time.
	www.dutchbirding.nl /journal/species.html (11806 words)

	Recognize Scytalopus stilesi as a valid species
		(2005) discovered a new tapaculo from the mid-elevation cloudforests from the Cordillera Central of Colombia that they described as a new species.
		Their conclusion that this taxa represents a new species is based on a series of 8 specimens along with vocal, genetic, and distributional information.
		Morphologically it may not be distinguishable from all taxa but it is distinguishable from the other species that occur in its range.
	www.museum.lsu.edu /~remsen/SACCprop193.html (684 words)

	Brazilsp
		Another Scytalopus species lives in the forest just a few kilometers from where the lowland tapaculo makes its home, but that bird has a different song and never wanders on to the marshes.
		But closer study of this bird revealed that 11 features, from the shape of the feathers to the bird's bone structure, were unique, Bornschein said.
		O Estado de São Paulo reports the discovery in 1997 of a new species of tapaculo, apparently a Scytalopus, by Marcos Bornschein, Bianca Reinert and Mauro Pichorim, in a three-hectare patch of marsh along the Rio Itaí in Quatro Barras, about 20 km east of Curitiba, Paraná.
	www.sentex.net /~tntcomm/kwfn/Brazilsp.htm (1260 words)

	Fantástico Sur - Birding & Nature - Patagonia, Chile. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We shall find several species of skulking tapaculos, the tiny Des Murs' wiretail, and the magnificent Magellanic woodpecker, and these are just a small sample of the many interesting species you should encounter during this journey of discovery.
		Up to five tapaculo species including chesnut-throated and fl-throated huet-huets, chucao, ochre-flanked and Magellanic tapaculos.
		There are several passerine species that are endemic to these southern temperate forests, including thorn-tailed rayadito, the amazing DesMur's wiretail, white-throated treerunner, chucao tapaculo and the local and quasi-endemic chestnut-throated huet-huet.
	www.fantasticosur.com /2005/bw_biobio.html (609 words)

	Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología - ACO
		THE NEST AND NESTLINGS OF THE LONG-TAILED TAPACULO (SCYTALOPUS MICROPTERUS) IN ECUADOR
		We describe two nests of the Long-tailed Tapaculo (Scytalopus micropterus) from the eastern Andes of Ecuador, on the slopes of Sumaco Volcano.
		One was a typical ball of moss built inside a cavity within a fallen log.
	www.ornitologiacolombiana.org /oc3/greeneyygelis.htm (292 words)

	Bird Peru Birding Tours South America - Chile - Central Chile and Juan Fernandez Archipelago
		We choose to stay as close to the parks as possible and will be camping on these occasions.
		Close of these accommodations Des Mur's Wiretail, Magellanic Tapaculo and Chucao Tapaculo are usually easy to find.
		Early morning in the pre-cordillera : White-throated Tapaculo, Moustached Turca, Dusky-tailed Canastero, Crag Chilia, Chilean Tinamou (we have to be lucky !) etc...
	www.kolibriexpeditions.com /birdingperukolibri/southamericatours/america_tours.asp?idtourk=55 (1034 words)

	Patagonia Baker Lodge
		Many of the specialties and endemic birds to Patagonia can be found, as the remarkable Magellanic Woodpecker, Austral Parakeet, and Chucao Tapaculo.
		One of the areas that will be visited during the expedition is the Tamango National Reserve, where birds cheers habitat with the Huemul (Southern Andean Dear).
		A visit to the Tamango National Reserve, in search of the remarkable Chucao Tapaculo, and others birds such as White-browed Ground-Tyrant, Fire-eyed Diucon, Common Diuca-Finch, and if we are lucky enough, the very discreet and hard to see Black-throated Huet-Huet.
	www.pbl.cl /birdwatchining.htm (660 words)

	Planet Ark - Two New Bird Species Identifed in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The shy, dark-colored birds, which live in thick forest, are mostly identified by their songs and it was their calls that distinguished the two new species, BirdLife International said.
		"Stiles' Tapaculo's song is considerably faster and lower-pitched than that of the closely related Ecuadorian Tapaculo S. robbinsi," BirdLife International said in a statement.
		It is genetically distinct and is found throughout a 185-mile (300 km) stretch of the Cordillera Central Mountains.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=32163 (263 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- November 1998, week 3 (#103)
		I may have had a WHITE-THROATED TAPACULO fly across the road, but the view was too brief, and we weren’t given another chance.
		As the light faded, a tapaculo was curiously checking out our presence.
		Close views of two of those Scytalopus tapaculos confirmed the lack of a white crown, but again, neither vocalized.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9811c&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=6888 (1060 words)

	Stiles's Tapaculo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stiles's Tapaculo (Scytalopus stilesi) is a member of the tapaculo family, Rhinocryptidae, described as new to science in 2005.
		It has been found at 21 sites in montane forest between 1,420 and 2,130 m altitude in the northern Cordillera Central of the Colombian Andes; although having a restricted range, within this limited area it is a common understorey bird.
		The species was originally observed in the 1990s, but when Niels Krabbe examined recordings of their songs, his suspicions arose that they were a new species — Stiles's Tapaculo's song is considerably faster and lower-pitched than that of the closely related Ecuadorian Tapaculo S.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stiles's_Tapaculo (198 words)

	Birding Peru Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Satipo Road, leading from the lowlands around the town of Satipo up to the altiplano of Concepcion, is one of Peru's newest and most exciting birding areas.
		From antbirds of the lowlands to tapaculos of the tree line and condors of the puna, this will be a spectacular journey.
		Although this species is difficult, the still-undescribed "Millpo" Tapaculo is easily found, and another possibly new tapaculo is also common but skulking in bamboo in the area, and Fire-throated Metaltail can be found fairly readily.
	www.birdingperu.org /satipo.htm (842 words)

	rhinocryptidae
		Ochre-flanked Tapaculo, Eugralla paradoxa, Mérulaxe à flancs ocre
		Peruvian Rufous-vented Tapaculo, Scytalopus femoralis, Mérulaxe à ventre roux
		Tacarcuna or Pale-throated Tapaculo, Scytalopus panamensis, Mérulaxe du Panama
	www.oiseaux.net /liste/birds.rhinocryptidae.html (426 words)

	Fantástico Sur - Birding & Nature - Patagonia, Chile. Central Chile, El Yeso Resorvoir, Central Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Here, we will scan the craggy ravines along the road in search of the endemic crag chilia.
		We will enjoy a good chance of locating this species along with torrent duck, Andean condor, variable hawk, mountain caracara, fl-chested buzzard-eagle, white-sided hillstar, gray-flanked cinclodes, the endemic moustached turca and dusky tapaculo, fl-billed shrike-tyrant and band-tailed sierra-finch.
		Four endemic species including crag chilia, moustached turca, dusky tapaculo and Chilean mockingbird.
	www.fantasticosur.com /bw_centralcoast.html (258 words)

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