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Conirostrum albifrons

Male
Photo by Michael W
Nono-Mindo Rd, Tandayapa Valley, Ecuador, March 2007

[edit] Identification

Sexually dimorphic: Male is largely black, with subtle blue crown. Female has light brown head, gray chest and belly, and olive back.

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia on both slopes of Andes, but more common in East.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

Six subspecies are recognized:

• C. a. albifrons:

• Central and eastern Andes of Colombia and western Venezuela (Táchira)

• C. a. centralandium:

• Central Andes of Colombia (Antioquia to Cauca)

• C. a. cyanonotum:

• Coastal mountains of northern Venezuela (Aragua and Distrito Federal)

• C. a. atrocyaneum:

• Andes of south-western Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru

• C. a. sordidum:

• Andes of southern Peru (Junín) to western Bolivia (La Paz)

• C. a. lugens:

• Yungas of eastern Bolivia (Cochabamba and Santa Cruz)

[edit] Habitat

Upper subtropical and temperate forest.

[edit] Behaviour

Stays high in the trees, wags tail incessantly.

Moves around in family groups often with large mixed-species flocks.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019
2. Avibase

• List of references

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