From Opus

This article is incomplete. This article is missing one or more sections. You can help the BirdForum Opus by expanding it.

Lepidothrix coronata

Photo by obasanmi
Panama, March 2008

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Costa Rica and Panama to Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. There may be no interaction between subspecies found east and west of the Andes.

[edit] Taxonomy

This species has in the past has been placed in genus Pipra.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

Eight subspecies are recognized:

• L. c. velutina:

• Humid south-western Costa Rica to western Panama

• L. c. minuscula:

• Eastern Panama to north-western Ecuador (south to Pichincha)

• L. c. caquetae:

• Tropical south-eastern Colombia (east of Andes in western Meta and western Caquetá)

• L. c. carbonata:

• South-eastern Colombia to northern Peru, southern Venezuela and northern Amazonian Brazil

• L. c. coronata:

• Tropical eastern Ecuador to north-eastern Peru and western Amazonian Brazil

• L. c. exquisita:

• Tropical eastern Peru (southern Loreto to Junín)

• L. c. caelestipileata:

• South-eastern Peru (Puno) and adjacent western Amazonian Brazil

• L. c. regalis:

• Tropical northern Bolivia south to Cochabamba

[edit] Habitat

moist tropical forest, observed at heights around 130m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

• List of references

[edit] External Links