Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii)

Other Names (World)
Scarlet-rumped Tanager, Passerini's Tanager, Song Tanager

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
Bonaparte, 1831

Habitat
Open areas including light secondary growth, woodland edges, gardens, pastures with bushes. From sea-level - 1,000 m, occasionally up to 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize (B) (NB), Costa Rica (B) (NB), Guatemala (B) (NB), Honduras (B) (NB), Mexico (B) (NB), Nicaragua (B) (NB), Panama (B) (NB).

South-eastern Mexico (south-eastern Veracruz, southern Tabasco and northern Chiapas) east to central Guatemala and Belize, southern on Caribbean coast to Costa Rica and north-western Panama (Bocas del Toro).

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.

Habits
Usually in pairs, small groups or in mixed feeding flocks.

Food
Small fruits, insects, spiders.

Voice
Call is a sharp 'wac'. Song consists of a few pleasant notes, uttered in phrases.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)

Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) [XC863661]
by Joost van Bruggen from La Fortuna (near El Castillo), San Ram\u00f3n, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica (call)

Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) [XC274555]
by Peter Boesman from Esquinas lodge, Piedras Blancas NP, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (song)

Nest
Cup-shaped, in a tree, about 6 m above the ground.

Eggs (Guide)
2; pale blue or grey, marked with black, brown or lilac. Often two broods per season.

Subspecies
Ramphocelus passerinii (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) and Cherrie's Tanager (Ramphocelus costaricensis) following AOU (1998).

Often treated as conspecific with Cherrie's Tanager (Ramphocelus costaricensis), but recent DNA studies suggest that they can be regarded as separate species. DNA studies indicate that both are monophyletic and, although levels of divergence within the two taxa (0�1%, 0�6%) are much less than divergence between them (1�8%), this level of interspecific divergence is lower than that between most species of tanager (c. 2�4 - 4�0%). Also, visual differences between the two are minimal (involving mainly females), and only minor vocal differences have been demonstrated. Further evaluation of these taxa may be required.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

passerinii Bonaparte, 1831 - Southern Mexico to Panama.
costaricensis Cherrie, 1891 - Pacific slope of southern Costa Rica (Puntarenas) and western Panama. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Cherrie's Tanager (Ramphocelus costaricensis).

References
See References.

Files:

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