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 LC    Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager* Id (Atlas):
    Chlorospingus pileatus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager, Pileated Bush-tanager, Volcano Bush-tanager (zeledoni), Sooty-capped Bush Tanager, Sooty-capped Chlorospingus

Family
Passerellidae (New World Sparrows)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
Salvin, 1864

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. Also, high altitude shrubland, heavily degraded former forest. From 1,500 - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Costa Rica, Panama.

Mountains from central Costa Rica south to western Panama (Volcán de Chiriquí­).
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (18)...)

 
Sooty-capped Bush Tanager (Chlorospingus pileatus) [XC552503]
     by Odirlei Vieira da Fonseca from Parque Nacional Los Quetzales, Copey District, Dota, San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica (call, contact call)

 
Sooty-capped Bush Tanager (Chlorospingus pileatus) [XC484683]
     by Hans Matheve from San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica (call)

Subspecies
Recent molecular-genetic studies indicate that this genus and Nesospingus, Spindalis and Phaenicophilus form a monophyletic clade that is sister to several New World warbler (Parulidae) genera (including Dendroica, Basileuterus and Vermivora), and are not closely related to other genera of present family. More recent evidence suggests that Chlorospingus is closest to genus Arremonops in family Emberizidae. The form "zeledoni", originally described as a separate species, now considered to be only a colour morph of present species and known only from Volcán Irazú and Volcán Turrialba, in Costa Rica. Birds from Cerro Flores, in eastern Chiriquí­ (Panama), supposedly with yellower underparts and whiter central abdomen, described as subspecies diversus, but appear inseparable from those in rest of species' range.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • pileatus Salvin, 1864   -  Costa Rica, western Panama.
  • diversus Griscom, 1924   -  Mountains of western Panama (eastern Chiriquí).



References
See References.


Files:
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