Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cotingidae > Phytotoma > Phytotoma rutilaPhytotoma rutila (White-tipped Plantcutter)The white-tipped plantcutter (Phytotoma rutila) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. As the other plantcutters, this species is sexually dimorphic and folivorous. It is found widely in woodland and scrub of south-eastern and south-central South America. It is mainly found in lowlands east of the Andes, but ranges well into the highlands in Bolivia. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.90196 EDGE Score: 2.38894 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 43 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 80 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 10 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 20 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 3 | | Incubation [1] | 14 days | | Migration [4] | Intracontinental |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land
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Alta Paraná Atlantic forests |
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Bolivian montane dry forests |
Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Bolivian Yungas |
Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central Andean dry puna |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Central Andean puna |
Argentina, Bolivia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Dry Chaco |
Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Espinal |
Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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High Monte |
Argentina |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Humid Chaco |
Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Humid Pampas |
Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Low Monte |
Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Southern Andean Yungas |
Bolivia, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Uruguayan savanna |
Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Atlantic Forest |
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay |
No |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
No |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 5Folivory in the white-tipped plantcutter Phytotoma rutila: seasonal variations in diet composition and quality, Enrique H. Bucher, Daniela Tamburini, Adriana Abril and Patricia Torres, JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 34: 211–216, 2003 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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