Endangered
Diamantina Tapaculo
Scytalopus diamantinensis
Diamantina Tapaculo is a perching bird in the family Rhinocryptidae (order Passeriformes) — Scytalopus diamantinensis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The adult's plumage is identical to that of the Planalto tapaculo. The male's upperparts are mainly dark gray and the underparts paler gray. The flanks are buff with dark bars, that differentiate it from the similar but unbarred mouse-colored tapaculo.
The Diamantina tapaculo is approximately 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long and weighs approximately 15 g (0.53 oz).
Range and habitat
The Diamantina tapaculo is found only in the Chapada Diamantina in Brazil's Bahia state. It inhabits some of the remaining patches of dense forest in a region otherwise characterized by campo rupestre, a biome of grassland and rocky outcrops. In elevation it ranges from 850 to 1,600 m (2,790 to 5,250 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
No information has been published about the Diamantina tapaculo's diet or foraging phenology. Virtually nothing is known about the Diamantina tapaculo's breeding behavior.
One nest has been described. It was a bowl of grasses in a rock crevice.
In crisis
Diamantina 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 Diamantina Tapaculo, Wikidata item Q1270835. 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.
