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Photo by Luiz
Photo taken: Simon Hotel, Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tangara seledon

Identification

13.5 cm Its turquoise head and neck change into a yellow half-collar then black. The wing coverts are dark blue while the wings are black broadly edged green. It has a black bib, a turquoise belly and a bright orange rump normally only visible when it flies.

Female and Immature paler, more greenish.

Distribution

Immature
Photo by jocateme
Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, January 2008

South America: found in south-eastern Paraguay to south-eastern Brazil and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones)

Taxonomy

Monotypic

Habitat

Atlantic rainforest

Behaviour

Diet

They eat fruit (bananas, papayas) and insects

Vocalisation

Call: a strident TSEEe, cheIT, tsewk; loud, trisyllalbic, descending dawn song.

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. BF Member observations Arthur Grosset and Peter van Zoest

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