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Ash-colored Tapaculo
Myornis senilis (Lafresnaye, 1840)
Rhinocryptidae — Tapaculos
Ash-colored Tapaculo, Myornis senilis, is a bird of the Andean highlands in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, within the family Rhinocryptidae. It is the only species in its genus and has no subspecies. The adult has medium grey upperparts and paler grey underparts, with some birds showing cinnamon on the flanks and crissum. Young birds are different again, with reddish-brown upperparts and ochre-brown underparts. It lives in humid montane forest, especially dense Chusquea bamboo and Neurolepis cane thickets, mainly at 2,300 to 3,700 m.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Rhinocryptidae — Tapaculos
- Breeding range
- South America: Colombia to Peru
