White-tipped Plantcutter | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cotingidae |
Genus: | Phytotoma |
Species: | P. rutila |
Binomial name | |
Phytotoma rutila Vieillot, 1818 |
The White-tipped Plantcutter (Phytotoma rutila) is a species of bird in the Cotingidae family. As the other plantcutters, this species is sexually dimorphic and folivorous. It is the 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.