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Photo by Luiz
Ypê Hotel, Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2007

Chlorophonia cyanea

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

Female
Photo by Pitter
Valle de Cauca, Colombia

[edit] Subspecies

There are 7 subspecies^[1]:

• C. c. psittacina:

• Santa Marta Mountains (north-eastern Colombia)

• C. c. intensa:

• Western slope of Western Andes of Colombia (Caldas and Valle)

• C. c. longipennis:

• Andes of eastern Colombia to western Venezuela, eastern Peru and western Bolivia

• C. c. frontalis:

• Mountains of northern Venezuela (Falc¢n and Lara to Miranda)

• C. c. minuscula:

• Coastal mountains of north-eastern Venezuela

• C. c. roraimae:

• Southern Venezuela to Guyana and extreme north-western Brazil

• C. c. cyanea:

• Paraguay to south-eastern Brazil (southern Bahia) and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones)

[edit] Habitat

Atlantic forest and forest edges and gardens.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase

• List of references

[edit] External Links