Moss-backed Tanager (Bangsia edwardsi)

Other Scientific Names
Buthraupis edwardsi [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
15 - 16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Elliot, 1865)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest. From 900 - 2,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Colombia, Ecuador.

Western slope of western Andes in south-western Colombia (from Dagua Valley, in Valle del Cauca) south to north-western Ecuador (Esmeraldas and Pichincha).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (27)...)

Moss-backed Tanager (Bangsia edwardsi) [XC105791]
by GABRIEL LEITE from San Francisco - Monta\u00f1a entre Mashpi - Pachijal 0\u00b06'42.66''N 78\u00b054'9.85''O, Ecuador (alarm call)

Moss-backed Tanager (Bangsia edwardsi) [XC588461]
by Francisco Sornoza from Reserva Natural r\u00edo \u00d1amb\u00ed, Vereda el Barro, Altaquer, Barbacoas, Nari\u00f1o., Colombia (song)

Subspecies
No 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.

References
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