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Photo by Arthur Grosset
Murici, Alagoas, Brazil, March 2004

Hemithraupis guira

[edit] Identification

The male is boldly patterned with a black mask and throat surrounded by bright yellow. The centre of the breast is bright orange, the belly is yellowish and the flanks are grey-green. Upperparts are olive green with an orange rump and the bill is pointed and yellow except on the culmen which is black.
The female is much duller being olive above and dull yellow below. It has a faint yellow supercilium.

[edit] Distribution

Most of South America from Colombia to northern Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 8 subspecies^[1]:

• H. g. guirina:

• Western and central Colombia to western Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru

• H. g. nigrigula:

• North-central Colombia to northern Venezuela, the Guianas and north-eastern Brazil

Photo by Rogerio Araújo Dias
Brasilia, Brazil

• H. g. huambina:

• Tropical south-eastern Colombia to eastern Ecuador, north-eastern Peru and western Brazil

• H. g. roraimae:

• Tepuis of south-eastern Venezuela and Guyana

• H. g. boliviana:

• North-eastern Bolivia to north-western Argentina and adjacent western Brazil

• H. g. amazonica:

• Brazil south of the Amazon (Rio Madeira to Rio Tapaj¢s)

• H. g. guira:

• Eastern Brazil (Rio Tocantins to Cear , Goi southern and north-western Bahia)

• H. g. forsteri:

• Eastern Paraguay to north-eastern Argentina and interior south-eastern Brazil

[edit] Habitat

Atlantic gallery forest, open woodland and tall scrub.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. BF Member observations

• List of references

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