🦋 Family

Rhinocryptidae

9 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Aves › Passeriformes › Rhinocryptidae

Teledromas fuscus, the sandy gallito, is a small Andean Argentine bird found in subtropical and tropical dry shrubland.

Scytalopus magellanicus is a small wren-like South American tapaculo that feeds on insects in dense low vegetation, often near Chusquea bamboo.

Scelorchilus albicollis, the white-throated tapaculo, is a 19 cm-long bird endemic to Chile.

The chucao tapaculo is a small bird native to temperate humid forests of South America, with distinct colored plumage patterns.

Pteroptochos tarnii, the black-throated huet-huet, is a Rhinocryptidae bird found in Chile and western Argentina.

Pteroptochos megapodius, the moustached turca, is an endemic Chilean stocky ground-dwelling bird with two recognized subspecies.

Rhinocrypta lanceolata, the crested gallito, is a distinctive tapaculo found in parts of central South America.

Acropternis orthonyx, the ocellated tapaculo, is a Andean mountain passerine that favors bamboo-rich humid low forest.

Eleoscytalopus indigoticus, the white-breasted tapaculo, is a small bird found in Atlantic Forest regions of eastern Brazil.

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