Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest and moist shrubland, heavily degraded former forest. From sea-level - 1,200 m, occasionally up to 1,900 m.
Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) [XC676291]
by Peter Boesman from Nueva Esperanza, Federico Roman, Pando Department, Bolivia (dawn song, song)
Silver-beaked Tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) [XC817265]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Porto Franco, Maranh\u00e3o Ecopousada Brasil, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Crimson-backed Tanager (Ramphocelus dimidiatus), Huallaga Tanager (Ramphocelus melanogaster) and Brazilian Tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius). Molecular analysis indicates that levels of divergence between this species and Huallaga Tanager (Ramphocelus melanogaster) (1.1%) are lower than those generally found for other species in genus (2·4 - 4·0%). The two overlap slightly in range in northern Peru (Marañón drainage), with some evidence of hybridization. Has hybridized with Brazilian Tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius) in eastern Brazil (south-eastern Minas Gerais).
The following 8 subspecies are recognised:
capitalis Allen, JA, 1892 - North-eastern Venezuela (Anzoátegui east to Paría Peninsula, south to Monagas and Delta Amacuro).
magnirostris Lafresnaye, 1853 - South-eastern Sucre, in north-eastern Venezuela; Trinidad.
venezuelensis Lafresnaye, 1853 - Eastern base of Andes in northern and western Venezuela (Falcón east to Miranda, south to Táchira) and Colombia (Arauca, Boyacá).
unicolor Sclater, PL, 1856 - Eastern base of Andes in Colombia (from Casanare region south to Meta).
carbo (Pallas, 1764) - South-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru (south to Ucayali), Venezuela south of R Orinoco, the Guianas, and north, western and central Brazil (south to northern Mato Grosso).
connectens von Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1896 - South-eastern Peru and adjacent north-western Bolivia.
atrosericeus d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 - Northern and eastern Bolivia.
centralis Hellmayr, 1920 - Eastern Brazil (central Mato Grosso east to Bahia, Minas Gerais and northern Sío Paulo) south to north-eastern Paraguay.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet