Cotingas (Cotingidae)
White-tipped Plantcutter (Phytotoma rutila) - HBW 9, p. 74
French: Rara du Paraguay
German: Zweibinden-Pflanzenmäher
Spanish: Cortarramas Argentino
Other common names: Red-breasted/Reddish Plantcutter; Bolivian Plantcutter (angustirostris)
Taxonomy: Phytotoma rutila Vieillot, 1818, Paraguay.
Genus formerly treated as constituting a separate family of uncertain affinities or, sometimes, as a subfamily within Tyrannidae; more recent genetic data, however, indicate close relationship, possibly as sister-group, to a cotingid clade formed by the genera Ampelion, Doliornis and Zaratornis. Forms superspecies with P. raimondii. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- angustirostris d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 - highlands of C & S Bolivia (La Paz and Santa Cruz S to Tarija), and N Argentina (around Pichanal, in N Salta).
- rutila Viellot, 1818 - W Paraguay (E to near R Paraguay), N & E Argentina (S to Mendoza, La Pampa, Río Negro and CE Chubut) and W Uruguay.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male on the top of a prickly branch, singing. Locality Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp rutila )
Josep del Hoyo 20 September 2008 3 years ago 33 sec 4.3 -
A bird perched on a bush Locality Moldes, Córdoba Province, Argentina
Barry Attridge 9 December 2006 4 years ago 10 sec 4.3 -
A dorsal view of a male singing from a prickly branch, then flying away. Locality Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp rutila)
Josep del Hoyo 20 September 2008 3 years ago 39 sec 4
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Female perched on a branch.
Locality Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp rutila)
Santiago Meligeni Lozano 2 September 2011 23 weeks ago 4.2 -
Female eating acacia leaves
Locality Cochabamba Department, Bolivia (ssp angustirostris)
ALBERTO GARCIA RIOS 10 September 2006 2 years ago 3.5 -
On a branch
Locality Ribera Norte Reserve, San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
oleicfrisbee 28 weeks ago 2.9 -
A male singing from a branch.
Locality Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp rutila)
Josep del Hoyo 20 September 2008 3 years ago 2.5
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A male song Locality Neuquén Province, Argentina
(Monotypic species)
Nacho Areta 7 January 2010 2 years ago 4
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