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Copalinga, Ecuador, February, 2009

Tangara schrankii

[edit] Identification

12cm. A colourful tanager.

• Mainly bright emerald-green plumage
• Black forehead, supraloral line and narrow area around the eye
• Black triangular patch on ear-coverts
• Turquoise crescent in front of eye and bright turquoise margin behind black ear-coverts
• Nape and side of neck green to golden-green, flecked and mottled with black
• Emerald-green upperparts broadly streaked black
• Bright yellow rump and undertail-coverts
• Blackish tail edged green to greenish-blue
• Bright emerald-green underparts, lower throat and all of central breast to belly bright yellow

Sexes similar, females slightly duller. Juveniles are dull greyish-brown.

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
Widespread and common in much of its range.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• T. s. anchicayae:

• Western slope of Western Andes of Colombia (Río Anchicayá)

• T. s. schrankii:

• South-eastern Colombia to northern Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil

• T. s. venezuelana:

• Tropical southern Venezuela (southern Bolívar and eastern Amazonas)

anchicayae is not accepted by other authorities and should be treated as synonym of Emerald Tanager.

[edit] Habitat

Found in humid terra firme forest and varzea forest, also in humid and wet foothill forest.
Occurs from lowlands up to 1200m, locally higher.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on fruits and some arthropods.
Usually in groups of up to 20 birds in mixed-species flocks, often together with Paradise Tanager.
Nesting recorded in July, August and October. The nest is cup-shaped and made of dried leaves, plant fibres and rootlets. It's placed up to 2m above the ground at the base of an understorey plant, a palm frond or a fern. Lays 2 eggs.
A resident species.

[edit] References

1. 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
2. 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
3. Avibase

• List of references

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