Ash-Coloured Tapaculo
Myornis senilis(de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1840)
English (US) Ash-colored Tapaculo
UK name: Ash-Coloured Tapaculo
The Ash-Coloured Tapaculo (Myornis senilis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Rhinocryptidae (Tapaculos) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru (south to Pasco)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Myornis senilis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Ash-colored Tapaculo
- English (UK)
- Ash-Coloured Tapaculo
- Described by
- (de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1840)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Merulaxis senilis
- Described by
- (de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1840)
- Type locality
- Bogota.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 3 p.103
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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