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Male, subspecies humilis
Photo by ramontranquilo
Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro, Panama, May 2010

Euphonia minuta

[edit] Identification

Male

• Blue black upperparts head, throat and upper chest
• Yellow forehead
• White belly and crissum
  

Female

• Olive above
• Olive-yellow breast band and flanks
• Whitish belly and crissum

[edit] Distribution

Immature, subspecies humilis
Photo by ramontranquilo
Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro, Panama, September 2010

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 2 subspecies:

• E. m. humilis:

• Gulf slope of south-eastern Mexico (south-eastern Chiapas) to western Ecuador

• E. m. minuta:

• Colombia east of Andes to the Guianas, northern Bolivia and western Brazil

[edit] Habitat

Humid forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

[edit] External Links