Golden-hooded Tanager (Tangara larvata)

Other Names (World)
Golden-hooded Tanager, Golden-headed Tanager, Golden-masked Tanager, Hooded Tanager(!)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
12 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Du Bus De Gisignies, 1846)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest, subtropical and tropical moist shrubland. From sea-level - 1,200 m, occasionally up to 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Subspecies
Molecular-genetic data indicate that this species is sister-species to both Blue-necked Tanager (Tangara cyanicollis) and Masked Tanager (Tangara nigrocincta), and that it is more closely related to former, although it has been treated as conspecific with latter. Geographical variation partly clinal.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

larvata (Du Bus De Gisignies, 1846) - Caribbean slope of south-eastern Mexico (from Tabasco, northern Oaxaca and northern Chiapas), Belize and eastern Guatemala south to extreme northern Costa Rica.
centralis (von Berlepsch, 1912) - Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and western Panama (Bocas del Toro, northern Veraguas and northern Cocl�).
franciscae (Sclater, PL, 1856) - Pacific slope of Costa Rica and western Panama (east to Veraguas).
fanny (Lafresnaye, 1847) - Eastern Panama (from Col�n on Caribbean slope, and from Canal Zone on Pacific slope) east to Colombia (northern base of western and central Andes, lower Cauca Valley, middle Magdalena Valley, and Pacific lowlands and slope from Choc�) south to western Ecuador (Manab�� and Los R��os).

References
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