Rufous-tailed Plantcutter (Phytotoma rara)

Other Names (World)
Rufous-tailed Plantcutter, Chilean Plantcutter

Family
Cotingidae (Cotingas)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
Molina, 1782

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, temperate forest. From sea-level - 2,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Chile.

Vagrant to Falkland Islands (Malvinas), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Central and southern Chile (southern fromVallenar, in southern Atacama) and south-western Argentina (southern from Neuquen) south to Tierra del Fuego.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Rufous-tailed Plantcutter (Phytotoma rara) [XC450070]
by Iv\u00e1n Rivelli from PN Puyehue-Aguas Calientes, X Regi\u00f3n, Chile (song)

Rufous-tailed Plantcutter (Phytotoma rara) [XC503932]
by Ignacio Escobar from CasaPiedra (Vitacura), Chile (begging call, hatchling or nestling)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus formerly treated as constituting a separate family of uncertain affinities or, sometimes, as a subfamily within Tyrannidae. However, more recent genetic data indicate close relationship, possibly as sister-group, to a cotingid clade formed by the genera Ampelion, Doliornis and Zaratornis.

References
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