White-tipped Plantcutter

Phytotoma rutila Vieillot, 1818

Cotingidae — Cotingas

White-tipped Plantcutter Phytotoma rutila is a bird of southern South America, breeding in central and southern Bolivia and across Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. It also turns up in Brazil and Chile. It belongs to the cotingas and was described by Vieillot in 1818. The species lives in open woodland, scrub, thickets beside water, parts of the Pampas, and in gardens and orchards. It has two subspecies, with the northern form reaching into Salta Province in Argentina. Its bill is stout and serrated, and the sexes differ in plumage.

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cotingidae — Cotingas
Breeding range: South America: sc, se

Tours where you can spot this bird

2 tours in Brazil 1, Argentina 1

Parque do Espinilho Birdwatching with Roberto Botelho

Brazil / Barra do Quarai Private tour 4 days

A private 4- to 7-day birding route to Parque Estadual do Espinilho and the distinctive dry woodland around Barra do Quarai....

Wild Buenos Aires: Ceibas Birding Tour

Argentina / Ceibas Custom tour 1 day

Bird the rural roads of Ceibas and the Paraná Delta across savanna, wet grassland, reedbeds, marsh and riverside woodland, from a focused d...