| Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Cherrie's Tanager* |
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Ramphocelus costaricensis |
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Description (10)
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Cherrie's Tanager
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Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)
Size
16 cm
First Described (Guide)
Cherrie, 1891
Habitat
Open areas including light secondary growth, woodland edges, gardens, pastures with bushes. From sea-level - 1,700 m.
Costa Rica (B), Panama (B).
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Pacific slope of Costa Rica from Puntarenas (central and southern regions) and north-eastern Central Valley south to western Panama (Chiriquí and Veraguas).
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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.
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.
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
No 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 Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii), but recent DNA studies suggest that the two 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 vocal differences only minor. Further evaluation of these taxa is desirable.
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii).
References
See References.
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BirdLife International
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