Black-throated Shrike-tanager (Lanio aurantius)

Other Names (World)
Black-throated Shrike-Tanager, Great Shrike-tanager

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
20 - 20.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Lafresnaye, 1846

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 750 m, occasionally up to 1,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico.

Caribbean slope of south-eastern Mexico (from central Veracruz) east to lower Yucat�n Peninsula, south to northern and central Guatemala, Belize and Honduras (east to vicinity of La Ceiba).

Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

Black-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio aurantius) [XC436171]
by Oscar Campbell from Tikal, Peten, Guatemala (call)

Black-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio aurantius) [XC224785]
by Roland Rumm from Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

May form a superspecies with White-throated Shrike-tanager (Lanio leucothorax), and in the past often treated as conspecific.

References
See References.

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