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Choco Tapaculo (Scytalopus chocoensis)

Choco Tapaculo
Photo: Nick Athanas via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Choco Tapaculo

The Chocó tapaculo (Scytalopus chocoensis) is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. The Chocó tapaculo was formerly considered a subspecies of the Nariño tapaculo (Scytalopus vicinior) but was elevated to species status following Krabbe and Schulenberg (1997).

Source: Chocó tapaculo on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Choco Tapaculo. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:56) via xeno-canto.org/248277, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Call (0:46) via xeno-canto.org/248274, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Call (0:17) via xeno-canto.org/248240, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

3 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×3 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama · xeno-canto lists 72 recordings for this species in total.

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