Tapaculos

White-crowned Tapaculo

Scytalopus atratus

The White-crowned Tapaculo (Scytalopus atratus) is a 26 g forest bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Tapaculos

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

26 g

Habitat

Forest

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

4

Recorded in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela.

Where to see it: Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge & Manu Paradise Lodge (Peru); WildSumaco Lodge (Ecuador); Hotel Tinamú Birding Nature Reserve (Colombia); Alto Anchicayá - El Descanso (Doña Dora) (Colombia); Reserva Ecológica Río Blanco · Lodge (Colombia).

Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist