Silver-throated Tanager (Tangara icterocephala)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
13 - 13.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1851)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest. From 600 - 1,600 m, occasionally up to 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

Silver-throated Tanager (Tangara icterocephala) [XC107119]
by Mike Nelson from Estaci\u00f3n Biol\u00f3gica Las Cruces, San Vito de Coto Brus, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (call)

Silver-throated Tanager (Tangara icterocephala) [XC274467]
by Daniel Errichetti from area around Kiri lodge near Tapant\u00ed NP, Cartago, Costa Rica (call)

Subspecies
Genetic data indicate that this species is part of a monophyletic group that includes also Blue-whiskered Tanager (Tangara johannae), Green-and-gold Tanager (Tangara schrankii), Emerald Tanager (Tangara florida), Chestnut-breasted Tanager (Tangara arthus), Saffron-crowned Tanager (Tangara xanthocephala), Golden-eared Tanager (Tangara chrysotis) and Flame-faced Tanager (Tangara parzudakii).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

frantzii (Cabanis, 1861) - Northern Costa Rica southern on both slopes of mountains to western Panama (Veraguas).
oresbia Wetmore, 1962 - Mountains of west-central Panama (Cocl� and western Panam�).
icterocephala (Bonaparte, 1851) - Mountains of Pacific slope of extreme eastern Panama (eastern Dari�n), and Andes of Colombia (western slope of central range in Antioquia; western slope of western range southern from Antioquia) and western Ecuador (south to El Oro and western Loja); possibly also north-eastern Peru (eastern Tumbes).

References
See References.

Files:

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