- Tangara florida
Identification
12cm. A small, green-and-yellow Tanager.
- Narrow black area encircling eye
- Prominent black squarish patch on rear ear-coverts
- Yellow-green rest of head, purer yellow on crown
- Glistening emerald-green mantle and back boldly streaked black
- Bright yellow rump
- Green-and-black wings
- Bright emerald-green underparts becoming yellow on centre of lower breast and belly
Females are similar but duller green and with a green crown and a duller yellow belly. Juveniles are dull greyish-brown.
Distribution
From Costa Rica over Panama and Colombia to Ecuador.
Fairly common in most of its range.
Taxonomy
Two subspecies recognized:
- T. f. florida on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and western Panama
- T. f. auriceps in extreme eastern Panama (Darien) to Colombia and northwest Ecuador
The described subspecies anchicayae of Green-and-gold Tanager should be treated as synonym of this species.
Habitat
Lowland damp forests and cloud forests.
Occurs at 500 - 1200m in Costa Rica and 100 - 1100m in Colombia.
Behaviour
Feeds on fruits and some arthropods.
Usually seen in pairs or small groups in mixed-species flocks with other tanagers.
Breeding recorded from January to April.
A resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2011. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 16: Tanagers to New World Blackbirds. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553781
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Emerald Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Emerald_Tanager
External Links
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