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Photo by Michael W
Old Nono-Mindo Road, North-western Ecuador, March 2007

Pachyramphus versicolor

Identification

12 cm
Male

• Black upperparts
• White wing patches
• Yellow-green sides of head and throat
• White underparts barred with black
• White eye ring
  

Female

• Grey crown and nape
• Olive-green upperparts
• Rufous wings
• Greenish-yellow underparts finely barred with black.

Young males are much duller and greener than the adults, with weaker barring.

Distribution

Central and South America:
Central America: Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

There are 3 subspecies

• P. v. costaricensis:

• Humid montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama (Chiriquí)

• P. v. meridionalis:

• Eastern slope of Andes of southern Ecuador to eastern Peru and western Bolivia

• P. v. versicolor:

• Eastern and Central Andes of Colombia to western Venezuela and Ecuador

Habitat

Canopy and middle levels of mountain forests.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes large insects, spiders and berries.

Breeding

The female builds a spherical nest from plant material, with a low entrance and incubates the 2 dark brown-blotched brownish white eggs for 18-20 days. The male helps to feed the young.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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