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Photo: Bananafishbones
Location: Casa Maria - Venezuela

Tangara guttata

[edit] Identification

13.2 cm. Green upperparts with black spotting, yellow face with a black line from the eye to the gape. Black wings and tail edged with green, white underparts spotted with black. The sexes are similar. The flight call is a weak, metallic, chirping tsip.

[edit] Distribution

Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia and the extreme north of Brazil.

[edit] Taxonomy

Six subspecies are recognized^[1]: guttata, eusticta, tolimae, bogotensis, chrysophrys, and trinitatis.

[edit] Habitat

Humid montane and secondary forest.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes mainly fruit and some insects.

It builds a small cup nest in a tree. 2 brown-blotched white eggs are laid and incubated by the female for 13 days to hatching, with another 15 days before the chicks fledge.

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019

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