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Unicolored Tapaculo
Scytalopus unicolor Salvin, 1895
Rhinocryptidae — Tapaculos
Unicolored Tapaculo, Scytalopus unicolor, is a bird of the Rhinocryptidae family that breeds in west-central Peru. It was described by Salvin in 1895 and is confined to the eastern slopes of the Andes in southern Cajamarca and La Libertad. It lives in dense undergrowth in humid montane forest at 2,000 to 3,170 m. The species is monotypic. It was once treated as including blackish tapaculo and trilling tapaculo as subspecies.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Rhinocryptidae — Tapaculos
- Breeding range
- South America: wc Peru
