Rock Tapaculo (Scytalopus petrophilus) | Details

Rock Tapaculo Scytalopus petrophilus

Current view: Data table and detailed info

Taxonomy

Taxonomic note

Scytalopus petrophilus (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) is recognized as a species following work by Whitney et al. (2010).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
SACC. 2005 and updates. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2022	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Species attributes

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	low
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	90,000 km²
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	stable	-	suspected	-
Generation length	3.06 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as patchily distributed, but probably locally common (Fjeldsa and Kirwan 2020).

Trend justification: The species inhabits a wide variety of forested and open habitats, including severely degraded areas (Whitney et al. 2010). Therefore, in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats, the population is tentatively suspected to be stable.

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Brazil	extant	native	yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	suitable	resident
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)		suitable	resident
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude	suitable	resident
Altitude	890 - 2100 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Rock Tapaculo Scytalopus petrophilus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/rock-tapaculo-scytalopus-petrophilus on 22/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/12/2024.