Magpie Tanager (Cissopis leverianus)

Other Scientific Names
Cissopis leveriana [BirdLife International (2004)], Cissopis leveriana [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Cissopis leveriana [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
25.50 - 29 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, swamp forest, heavily degraded former forest. From sea-level - 1,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (53)...)

Magpie Tanager (Cissopis leverianus) [XC242422]
by Marcelo Villegas from Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutuc\u00fa: Uuntsuants, Ecuador (call, calls)

Magpie Tanager (Cissopis leverianus) [XC109369]
by GABRIEL LEITE from campo mourao, paran\u00e1, Brazil (call, song)

Subspecies
Recent molecular data indicate that present genus, Schistochlamys and Neothraupis are one another's closest relatives.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

leverianus (Gmelin, 1788) - Western and eastern Venezuela (on both slopes of Andes, and south of R Orinoco) east to French Guiana and Brazil (northern Roraima), also Colombia (eastern slope of Andes southern from Norte de Santander) south to Bolivia (Santa Cruz) and eastern across Brazil south of Amazon to central Mato Grosso, south-eastern Par� and southern Maranh�o. Also extreme eastern Brazil (Alagoas, possibly also Pernambuco).
major Cabanis, 1851 - South-eastern Brazil (Goi�s and Bahia south to northern Rio Grande do Sul), eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).

References
See References.

Files:

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