White-capped Tanager (Sericossypha albocristata)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
23 - 26 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lafresnaye, 1843)

Habitat
Humid and wet montane forest especially mossy higher elevation forest. From 1,400 - 3,200 m, but mainly 1,700 - 2,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

South-western Venezuela (Andes of southern T�chira); and Colombia locally in eastern Andes (Norte de Santander), locally on both slopes of central Andes (Caldas�"Tolima border), western Andes in Antioquia (La Linda, near city of Jard��n) and head of Magdalena Valley in Huila south through Cauca and Nari�o to Ecuador and central Peru (Jun��n).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status VU
Deforestation is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually in groups of 4 - 8, though occasionally up to 20 travel together.

Voice
Very loud and piercing including a descending 'pieeu', 'peeiep' and 'pew-pew-pew...', recalling a jay.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (78)...)

White-capped Tanager (Sericossypha albocristata) [XC297009]
by Jim Holmes from San Martin: Abra Patricia, Peru (call)

White-capped Tanager (Sericossypha albocristata) [XC398982]
by Iv\u00e1n Lau from Guasca, Cundinamarca, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Despite numerous earlier suggestions to the contrary, morphological and genetic data support placement of this species within present family. Molecular-genetic data indicate that present genus and Nemosia are probably sister-taxa.

References
See References.

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