White-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio leucothorax)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
Salvin, 1864

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 750 m.

Range (Guide)

Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (25)...)

White-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio leucothorax) [XC371536]
by Roland Rumm from Chile, South of SiksaTingni, Honduras (call, song, song with several variations. all sounds made by wtst.)

White-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio leucothorax) [XC92919]
by Jorge Gabriel Campos from TCU Research Station, Costa Rica (song)

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Black-throated Shrike-tanager (Lanio aurantius), and in the past often treated as conspecific.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

leucothorax Salvin, 1864 - Caribbean slope from Honduras (Olancho) south to eastern Costa Rica (south to Lim�n, also locally on western slope in Guanacaste).
reversus Bangs & Griscom, 1932 - Las Agujas (north-western Puntarenas), in western Costa Rica.
ictus Kennard & Peters, JL, 1927 - Lowlands and foothills around Almirante Bay (north-western Panama).
melanopygius Salvin & Godman, 1883 - Pacific slope from western Costa Rica (Puntarenas south of entrance to Gulf of Nicoya) south to western Panama (Chiriqu��, both slopes in Veraguas, and foothills on Caribbean slope of western Cocl�).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-throated Shrike-Tanager (Lanio leucothorax) - 10 files

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