New species of tapaculo in South America

Date:

March 11, 2015

Source:

Central Ornithology Publication Office

Summary:

After being misidentified and sitting in a museum drawer for more than seventy years, a group of bird specimens collected in Colombia and Venezuela has been determined to represent a previously unknown species, now dubbed the Perijá Tapaculo (Scytalopus perijanus).

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