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Vidcap by pbono
Location: Linhares Reserva Natural da Vale do Rio Doce, ES, Brazil
Subspecies brasiliensis

Caryothraustes canadensis

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

This species ranges from Brazil north to extreme eastern Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

Four subspecies are recognized in this species¹: simulans, canadensis, frontalis, and brasiliensis. Subspecies simulans which occurs in Darien (eastern Panama) isolated from other subspecies of this species as well as from Black-faced Grosbeak is sometimes included in Black-faced Grosbeak; however, simulans shares a yellow (not grey) underside with the rest of Yellow-green Grosbeak while Black-faced Grosbeak has a grey underside.

Black-faced Grosbeak was in the past included in Yellow-green Grosbeak.

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[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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