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Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo - BirdForum Opus

Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Central Andes, Colombia, July/August 2012
Vireolanius eximius

Identification

14 cm

  • Sky-nlue forehead, crown and nape
  • Greenish patch on rear crown
  • Yellow area under eye

Distribution

Southern Central and northern South America
Central America: occurs only in Panama
South America: Colombia and Venezuela

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies[1]:

  • V. e. mutabilis:
  • V. e. eximius:
  • Tropical northern Colombia and north-western Venezuela (Zulia and Táchira)

Habitat

Generally found in the lowlands in humid forest and tall second-growth woodland.

Behaviour

Diet

There is little known about their diet, but they glean in the canopy. It is thought they eat much the same foodstuff as Green Shrike-Vireo.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved April 2015)

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