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Photo by MKC
Sao Paulo, Brasil, December 2006

Tangara cayana

[edit] Identification

11,5 cm

• Buff body
• Turquoise wings and tail
• Black mask and throat
• Coppery crown

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Guianas, Peru, Brazil and Paraguay

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

The subspecies are divided into two groups: the cayana group found in Venezuela and Colombia, and the flava group found in south and east Brazil. There are 7 subspecies:

Female
Photo by Luiz
Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2006

• T. c. fulvescens:

• Eastern Andes of Colombia

• T. c. cayana:

• Colombia (east of the Andes) to Guianas, northern Brazil and eastern Peru

• T. c. huberi:

• North-eastern Brazil (Ilha Marajó region of Pará)

• T. c. flava:

• North-eastern Brazil (Maranhão and northern Goiás to extreme southern Bahia)

• T. c. sincipitalis:

• Central Brazil (Goiás)

• T. c. margaritae:

• Central Brazil (Mato Grosso)

• T. c. chloroptera:

• Paraguay to south-eastern Brazil (Minas Gerais) and north-eastern Argentina

[edit] Habitat

Savannas, gallery woodland and forest borders.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

Their diet includes fruit and insects

[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. Arthur Grosset
3. BF Member observations

• List of references

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