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Azure-rumped Tanager

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Photo by Stanley JonesJust above Vesuvius in Los Tarrales Reserve, south of San Lucas Taliman, Guatemala, April 2010
Photo by Stanley Jones
Just above Vesuvius in Los Tarrales Reserve, south of San Lucas Taliman, Guatemala, April 2010

Alternative name: Cabanis's Tanager

Tangara cabanisi

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[edit] Identification

15 cm

  • Purplish-azure crown
  • Black lores and iris
  • Mottled green mantle
  • Pale sky-blue rump and uppertail
  • Black central tail feathers with blue edging
  • Paler underparts with black scaling on upper breast
  • Black scapulars and greater and median wing-coverts.

[edit] Distribution

Central America: found in southern Mexico and adjacent Guatemala

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

[edit] Habitat

Between 860-1900 m asl in humid broadleaf evergreen forest and plantations near to forest edge.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The Azure-rumped Tanager is omnivorous, it feeds on fruit and invertebrates.

[edit] Breeding

Two eggs are laid in a cup-shaped nest which is hidden in dense foliage. Incubation takes around 14 days.

[edit] References

  1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. BirdLife International (2006) Species factsheet: Tangara cabanisi. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 27/6/2006
  3. Eisermann, K. (2011) Azure-rumped Tanager (Tangara cabanisi), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=607116
  4. Eisermann, K., & C. Avendaño. (2007) Lista comentada de las aves de Guatemala - Annotated checklist of the birds of Guatemala. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
  5. Eisermann, K., S. Arbeiter, G. López, C. Avendaño, and J. de León Lux. (2011) Distribution, habitat use, and implications for the conservation of the globally threatened Azure-rumped Tanager Tangara cabanisi in Guatemala. Bird Conservation International 21 (doi:10.1017/S0959270910000638).
  6. Eisermann, K., S. Arbeiter, G. López, C. Avendaño, J. de León Lux, A. Burge, A. de León Lux, & E. Buchán. (2011) Nesting ecology of the Endangered Azure-rumped Tanager (Tangara cabanisi) in Guatemala. Ornitología Neotropical 22: 39-57.
  7. Eisermann, K., G. López, J. Berry, J. de León Lux, and A. Burge. (2011) Vocalisations and juvenile plumage of Azure-rumped Tanager Tangara cabanisi. Cotinga OL 33: 46-49.
  8. Gómez de Silva, H. (1997) Further observations on the nesting of the Azure-rumped Tanager. Bulletin British Ornithologists’ Club 117: 16-18.
  9. Heath, M., & A. Long. (1991) Habitat, distribution and status of the Azure-rumped Tanager Tangara cabanisi in Mexico. Bird Conservation International 1: 223.254.
  10. Hilty, S. L., & D. Simon. (1977) The Azure-rumped Tanager in Mexico with comparative remarks on the Gray-and-gold Tanager. Auk 94: 605-606.
  11. Howell, S. N. G. & S. Webb (1995): A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York.
  12. Isler, M. L., & P. R. Isler. (1999) The tanagers: natural history, distribution and identification. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
  13. Long, A. J., & M. F. Heath. (1994) Nesting ecology and helping behaviour in the Azure-rumped Tanager in Mexico. Condor 96: 1095-1099.

[edit] External Links

Recent studies on Azure-rumped Tanager by PROEVAL RAXMU Bird Monitoring Program: http://www.biomonitoreo.org/Azure-rumped-Tanager.htm

BirdLife Species Factsheet: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=9384&m=0


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