Orange-headed Tanager (Thlypopsis sordida)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
13 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 800 m, occasionally up to 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (49)...)

Orange-headed Tanager (Thlypopsis sordida) [XC115081]
by Dan Lane from Vi\u00e7osa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (song)

Orange-headed Tanager (Thlypopsis sordida) [XC173951]
by Gabriel Rosa from Vidal Ramos, Santa Catarina, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Buff-bellied Tanager (Thlypopsis inornata).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

orinocensis Friedmann, 1942 - R Orinoco (from near Soledad, in Bol��var, south to south of Puerto Ayacucho, in Amazonas), in central Venezuela.
chrysopis (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1880) - Extreme southern Colombia (east of Andes), eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru and western Brazil (east to R Madeira and R Jiparan�).
sordida (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) - Southern and eastern Brazil south of R Amazon (eastern and southern Par� east to Cear� and Para��ba, south to Mato Grosso do Sul, S�o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), eastern Bolivia, northern Argentina (south to Tucum�n, Corrientes and Misiones) and Paraguay.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Orange-headed Tanager (Thlypopsis sordida) - 10 files

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