Endangered
Bahia Tapaculo
Eleoscytalopus psychopompus
Bahia Tapaculo is a perching bird in the family Rhinocryptidae (order Passeriformes) — Eleoscytalopus psychopompus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Based on the specimens, the white-breasted tapaculo is 11 cm (4.3 in) long. The adult's upper parts are blue-gray and its rump reddish brown. The throat, chest, and belly are white and the flanks and vent area are chestnut without the barring that the very similar white-breasted tapaculo has.
One male weighed 17.5 g (0.62 oz) and one female18 g (0.63 oz).
Range and habitat
It inhabits the understory of mature lowland forest at up to 50 m (160 ft) elevation, staying in dense cover near small streams. It is endemic to lowland Atlantic forest in Bahia, Brazil.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Nothing is known about the Bahia tapaculo's diet or feeding habits. The only data related to breeding is that a male and female collected in October 1983 had active gonads.
In crisis
Bahia Tapaculo is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bahia Tapaculo, Wikidata item Q788603. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
