Black-headed Tanager - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by iainp
Sierra Nevada National Park, Venezuela, July 2010

Tangara cyanoptera

Identification

13 cm (5 in)
Male

• Black head
• Whitish upperparts
• Black wings with blue flashes
  

Female

• Pale grey head
• Darker grey upperparts
• Greenish wing flashes
• Yellowish underparts

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Female
Photo by iainp
Sierra Nevada National Park, Venezuela, July 2010

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• T. c. cyanoptera:

• Mountains of northern Colombia to northern Venezuela

• T. c. whitelyi:

• Tepuis of southern Venezuela to Guyana and extreme northern Brazil

Habitat

Scattered trees in moist to moderately humid woodland

Behaviour

Diet

The diet consists of a variety of small fruits, catkins and some arthropods.

Breeding

Their white eggs have grey and brown markings.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2017)
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Black-headed Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Black-headed_Tanager

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