Endangered
Brasília Tapaculo
Scytalopus novacapitalis
Brasília Tapaculo is a perching bird in the family Rhinocryptidae (order Passeriformes) — Scytalopus novacapitalis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Brazil.
Appearance
The adult is blue-gray above and whitish to pale gray below. The lower back and rump are reddish brown and the vent is rufous with gray barring.
The Brasília tapaculo is 11 cm (4.3 in) long. One male weighed 19.2 g (0.68 oz) and two unsexed specimens weighed 15.6 and 18.6 g (0.55 and 0.66 oz).
Range and habitat
The Brasília tapaculo is found in disjunct areas in eastern Goiás, the Distrito Federal, and western Minas Gerais. It inhabits gallery forest, primarily permanently flooded areas with Blechnum ferns and Euterpe palms. It has a fairly narrow elevational range of 800 to 1,000 m (2,600 to 3,300 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Brasília tapaculo forages on the ground for insects, spiders, and centipedes. The only information on the Brasília tapaculo's breeding phenology is that a specimen collected in July had active gonads.
In crisis
Brasília 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 Brasília Tapaculo, Wikidata item Q899144. 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.
