The Bahia Tapaculo is a species of bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 in the Rhinocryptidae family. It is endemic to lowland Atlantic forests in Bahia

Bahia

Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. Until recently, it was feared extinct, but has since been rediscovered and is now known from the municipalities of Ilhéus

Ilhéus

Ilhéus is a major city located in the southern coastal region of Bahia, Brazil, 430 km south of Salvador, the state's capital. The city was originally founded in 1534 as Vila de São Jorge dos Ilhéus and is known as one of the most important tourism centers of the northeast of Brazil.The...

, Maraú

Maraú

Maraú is a town and municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.. The municipality is located in a peninsula called "Península de Maraú", physiographic area called "Região Cacaueira"...

, Taperoá

Taperoá

Taperoá is a town and municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. It was founded in 1569.-References:...

, Valença

Valença, Bahia

Valença is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Bahia and has an estimated population of 82.000. It is visited by tourists because it is the main access to the island of Tinharé, famous for the town of Morro de São Paulo.- The town :...

. It remains highly threatened by habitat loss and is consequently considered critically endangered

Critically endangered

Version 2010.3 of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 3744 Critically Endangered species, subspecies and varieties, stocks and subpopulations.Critically Endangered by kingdom:*1993 Animalia*2 Fungi*1745 Plantae*4 Protista-References:...

 by BirdLife International

BirdLife International

BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources...

 and IUCN. Together with the closely related White-breasted Tapaculo

White-breasted Tapaculo

The White-breasted Tapaculo is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family. It is endemic to Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss...

, it was formerly placed in the genus Scytalopus

Scytalopus

Scytalopus is a genus of small passerine birds belonging to the tapaculo group. They are found in South and Central America from Tierra del Fuego to Costa Rica, but are absent from the Amazon Basin. They inhabit dense vegetation at or near ground-level and are mainly found in mountainous regions,...

, but these two species are now known to be closer to the bristlefronts (genus Merulaxis

Merulaxis

Merulaxis is a genus of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family.It contains the following species:* Stresemann's Bristlefront * Slaty Bristlefront...

).

External links

• BirdLife Species Factsheet.