The Paramillo tapaculo (Scytalopus canus) is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae.

The Paramillo tapaculo is endemic to humid highland scrub in the Cordillera Occidental in Colombia.

It is restricted to a narrow swath of treeline vegetation (scrub, stunted trees and Polylepis woodland) situated between montane forest and Páramo grasslands that is often just hundreds of meters wide.

[1] While locally common, the estimated area of suitable habitat within the known range of the Paramillo tapaculo is 3 km2 in total.

Only 0.1 km2 is effectively protected by the Fundación ProAves Colibri del Sol Bird Reserve (which also harbours the highly threatened dusky starfrontlet and Fenwick's antpitta).