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Photo by Pitter
Dapa-Valle, Colombia, March 2009

Alternative name: Ash-throated Bush Tanager

Chlorospingus canigularis

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 5 subspecies:

• C. c. olivaceiceps:

• Subtropical Caribbean slope of western Costa Rica

• C. c. canigularis:

• Eastern Andes of Colombia (Cundinamarca) and south-western Venezuela

• C. c. conspicillatus:

• Western and Central Andes of Colombia

• C. c. paulus:

• Subtropical Andes of south-western Ecuador

• C. c. signatus:

• Subtropical Andes of eastern Ecuador and Peru(south to Cuzco)

[edit] Habitat

Dry and moist forests, moist montanes and forest edge to at least 2100m.

[edit] Behaviour

[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

• List of references

[edit] External Links