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Photo by Michael W
Old Nono-Mindo Road, North-western Ecuador, March 2007

Pachyramphus versicolor

[edit] Identification

12 cm
Male

• Black upperparts
• White wing patches
• Yellow-green sides of head and throat
• White underparts barred with black
• White eye ring
  

Female

• Grey crown and nape
• Olive-green upperparts
• Rufous wings
• Greenish-yellow underparts finely barred with black.

Young males are much duller and greener than the adults, with weaker barring.

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America:
Central America: Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 3 subspecies

• P. v. costaricensis:

• Humid montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama (Chiriquí)

• P. v. meridionalis:

• Eastern slope of Andes of southern Ecuador to eastern Peru and western Bolivia

• P. v. versicolor:

• Eastern and Central Andes of Colombia to western Venezuela and Ecuador

[edit] Habitat

Canopy and middle levels of mountain forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes large insects, spiders and berries.

[edit] Breeding

The female builds a spherical nest from plant material, with a low entrance and incubates the 2 dark brown-blotched brownish white eggs for 18-20 days. The male helps to feed the young.

[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. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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