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Tangara cabanisi

[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 species¹.

[edit] Habitat

Humid broadleaf evergreen forest and plantations.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes fruits and berries.

[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. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. BirdLife Internation

• List of references

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