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Photo by Luiz
Photo taken: Simon Hotel, Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tangara seledon

[edit] Identification

13.5 cm Its turquoise head and neck change into a yellow half-collar then black. The wing coverts are dark blue while the wings are black broadly edged green. It has a black bib, a turquoise belly and a bright orange rump normally only visible when it flies.

Female and Immature paler, more greenish.

[edit] Distribution

Immature
Photo by jocateme
Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, January 2008

South America: found in south-eastern Paraguay to south-eastern Brazil and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones)

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic

[edit] Habitat

Atlantic rainforest

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

They eat fruit (bananas, papayas) and insects

[edit] Vocalisation

Call: a strident TSEEe, cheIT, tsewk; loud, trisyllalbic, descending dawn song.

[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
3. BF Member observations Arthur Grosset and Peter van Zoest

• List of references

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