Northern hooded tapaculo
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The northern hooded tapaculo ( Merulaxis stresemanni ), also known as the Stresemann tapaculo, is a species of bird from the rumpet wilt family . It occurs in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Minas Gerais . Together with the southern hooded tapaculo ( Merulaxis ater ), which it looks very similar, it forms the genus of the hooded tapaculos ( Merulaxis ). The type epithet refers to the German ornithologist Erwin Stresemann .
description
The northern front hood tapaculo reaches a size of 20 cm. The plumage of the male is gray-lead. Tail and wings show a brownish tinge. The rump, upper tail-coverts and rump are dark reddish-maroon. The forehead is characterized by long, pointed bristles. The slender beak is dark. The female shows a cinnamon-brown upper side and a light cinnamon-brown underside. The tail is darker.
Habitat and way of life
Very little is known about his way of life. It searches for food on the ground and lives in damp forests at altitudes of up to 800 m.
status
Until 1995, the Northern hooded tapaculo was known to only two individuals. The holotype was collected near Salvador da Bahia in the 1830s . The second specimen was found in 1945 near Ilhéus in Bahia . Thereafter, the species was lost until 1995 at Fazenda Jueirana in Bahia a male was photographed and his song was recorded. After the subsequent search in the region failed, a new population was only discovered in the Jequitinhonha Valley in Minas Gerais in 2005 . The greatest threat is represented by the rapid destruction of the Atlantic rainforest and the conversion of forest areas into cocoa plantations . BirdLife International estimates the population at 50 to 250 specimens. In October 2012 it was possible for the first time to photograph a female at its nest.
literature
- J. Del Hoyo, A. Elliot, D. Christie (Eds.): Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos . Lynx Edicions, 2003, ISBN 84-87334-50-4 .
- Joseph A. Tobias, Stuart HM Butchart, Nigel J. Collar: Lost and found: a gap analysis for the Neotropical avifauna. (PDF full text; 813.3 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ First Nest Ever Discovered Of One Of The World's Most Endangered Birds. on: chattanoogan.com , January 17, 2013.
Web links
- Bird Conservation - The Magazine of American Bird Conservancy. ( Memento of February 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.36 MB). September 2005.
- BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Merulaxis stresemanni
- Merulaxis stresemanni inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- Spektrum .de: Is that the rarest bird on earth? December 28, 2018