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Ancash Tapaculo

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Scytalopus affinis

1 Identification
2 Distribution
3 Taxonomy
4 Habitat
5 Behaviour
6 References
7 External Links

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in the western Andes of Peru (southern Cajamarca to Ancash)

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Brown-rumped Tapaculo (sensu lato) by some authors^[2]

[edit] Habitat

High-altitude grassland and rocky areas.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
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