Plantcutter
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Plantcutters | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Passeriformes | familia = Cotingidae | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision =
- Phytotoma
- and others
}}
The plantcutters are a group of passerine birds in the cotinga family Cotingidae. They were previously in their own family, Phytotomidae.
These are robust birds of open woodland, scrub and farmland in tropical South America. They resemble finches, and feed on fruit and similar vegetable material.
They lay 2 - 4 brown-spotted green eggs in a tree nest, which are incubated by the female.
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Species
- Genus Phytotoma
- White-tipped Plantcutter, or Reddish Plantcutter, Phytotoma rutila
- Chilean Plantcutter, Phytotoma rara
- Peruvian Plantcutter, Phytotoma raimondii
- many other genera