White-winged Tanager (Piranga leucoptera)

Family
Cardinalidae (Cardinals)

Size
13 - 14.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Trudeau, 1839

Habitat
Cloud forest, other humid forests and edges, partial clearings. From 800 - 2,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A quiet, buzzy 'wheet-wheet'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (16)...)

White-winged Tanager (Piranga leucoptera) [XC228318]
by Niels Krabbe from Upper escalera, Bolivar, Venezuela (song)

White-winged Tanager (Piranga leucoptera) [XC880235]
by id from RNP Los Tarrales, Suchitep\u00e9quez, Guatemala (call)

Subspecies
Molecular-genetic evidence indicates that this genus forms a monophyletic group with Habia and Chlorothraupis, and that all three are more closely related to cardinals (Cardinalidae) than to true tanagers. This species and Red-headed Tanager (Piranga erythrocephala) have sometimes been placed in a separate genus, Spermagra, but recent DNA work does not support such treatment.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

leucoptera Trudeau, 1839 - Highlands of eastern Mexico (from Tamaulipas) south to Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
latifasciata Ridgway, 1887 - Highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama (east to Veraguas).
venezuelae Zimmer, JT, 1947 - Andes of Colombia (except Nari�o), and highlands of Venezuela (northern and south of R Orinoco) and adjacent Brazil (on Uei-tepui).
ardens (Tschudi, 1844) - Western slope of Andes in south-western Colombia (Nari�o) south to south-western Ecuador; eastern slope from Ecuador and Peru south to Bolivia (to Cochabamba).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-winged Tanager (Piranga leucoptera) - 10 files

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