Vilcabamba Tapaculo
- Scientific name
- Scytalopus urubambae
- Family
- Rhinocryptidae
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
- Habitat
- Forest mixed
- Wing shape
- Rounded
- Tail shape
- Notched
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Why it matters
The Vilcabamba Tapaculo is a rare, elusive species restricted to a small range in the high-altitude cloud forests of the Peruvian Andes. Its unique morphology, characterized by rounded wings and a distinctively notched tail, makes it a significant specimen for ornithologists studying the specialized adaptations of birds living in remote, high-elevation ecosystems.
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