Burnished-buff Tanager - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by MKC
Sao Paulo, Brasil, December 2006

Stilpnia cayana

Tangara cayana

Identification

13-14 cm (5-5½ in)

• Buff body
• Turquoise wings and tail
• Black mask and throat
• Coppery crown

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, The Guianas, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

Taxonomy

This species used to be placed in genus Tangara.

Subspecies

There are 7 subspecies^[1]:

Female
Photo © by Luiz
Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2006

• S. c. fulvescens:

• Eastern Andes of Colombia

• S. c. cayana:

• Colombia (east of the Andes) to Guianas, northern Brazil and eastern Peru

• S. c. huberi:

• North-eastern Brazil (Ilha Marajó region of Pará)

• S. c. flava:

• North-eastern Brazil (Maranhão and northern Goiás to extreme southern Bahia)

• S. c. sincipitalis:

• Central Brazil (Goiás)

• S. c. margaritae:

• Central Brazil (Mato Grosso)

• S. c. chloroptera:

• Paraguay to south-eastern Brazil (Minas Gerais) and north-eastern Argentina

Habitat

Subspecies cayana
Photo © by Luis R
Boconó, Edo Trujillo, Venezuela, July 2012

Savannas, gallery woodland and forest borders.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of fruit with some insects also eaten.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Arthur Grosset
3. BF Member observations
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2015)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Burnished-buff Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Burnished-buff_Tanager

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