White-throated Tapaculo Scelorchilus albicollis Scientific name definitions

The White-throated Tapaculo is a medium-sized member of the family Rhinocryptidae that is endemic to central Chile. The species is chestnut or gray above with a whitish supercilium and throat and pale and dark-barred underparts. White-throated Tapaculo is often detected in areas of dry, scrub-covered slopes by its loud, hollow, stuttered song. It is a very terrestrial species, most often seen on the ground with its tail cocked up above its back in a fashion similar to the sympatric Moustached Turca (Pteroptochos megapodius).