Blue-and-gold Tanager (Bangsia arcaei)

Other Scientific Names
Buthraupis arcaei [Collar and Andrew (1988)], Buthraupis arcaei [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sclater & Salvin, 1869)

Habitat
Lowland and montane evergreen forest, forest edges and gaps. From 300 - 1,500 m, but mostly at 700 - 1,050 m.

Range (Guide)

Costa Rica (B) (NB), Panama (B) (NB).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status NT
Destruction of foothill and montane forests, primarily due to burning, logging and conversion to agricultural use, is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Fruit, insects and spiders. Occasionally extracts nectar by removing and damaging flowers.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Blue-and-gold Tanager (Bangsia arcaei) [XC52414]
by id from Quebrada Gonzalez, Braulio Carrillo NP, Limon, Costa Rica (song)

Subspecies
In the past, genus sometimes subsumed in Buthraupis, but this treatment not supported by recent molecular-genetic studies, which place it in a separate clade, with Wetmorethraupis as sister to it. In addition, members of present genus are smaller in size and shorter-tailed than Buthraupis, relatively uniform in plumage, behaviourally less social and occur mostly at lower elevations. Recent specimens apparently of this species from Colombia may represent an undescribed form. Further study is required.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

caeruleigularis (Ridgway, 1893) - Caribbean slope of Costa Rica from extreme south-eastern Guanacaste south to Cartago (including slopes of volcanoes Turrialba, Iraz�, Barba and Poas).
arcaei (Sclater & Salvin, 1869) - Western and eastern Panama (locally in central Bocas del Toro, Chiriqu�� and both slopes in Veraguas east to Cocl�; vicinity of Cerro Jefe, also Cerro Brewster, in western San Blas).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Blue-and-gold Tanager (Bangsia arcaei) - 10 files

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