Blue-naped Chlorophonia - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Luiz
Ypê Hotel, Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2007

Chlorophonia cyanea

Identification

Female
Photo © by Pitter
Valle de Cauca, Colombia

11 cm (4¼ in)
Male

Glistening yellowish-green head, throat and chest
Blue nape, back and upper tail
Yellow underparts

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

Taxonomy

Subspecies C. c. psittacina
Photo © by NJ Larsen
The Y to entrance of El Dorado, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 19 August 2023

Subspecies

There are 7 subspecies^[1]:

C. c. psittacina:

Santa Marta Mountains (north-eastern Colombia)

C. c. intensa:

Western slope of Western Andes of Colombia (Caldas and Valle)

C. c. longipennis:

Andes of eastern Colombia to western Venezuela, eastern Peru and western Bolivia

C. c. frontalis:

Mountains of northern Venezuela (Falcón and Lara to Miranda)

C. c. minuscula:

Coastal mountains of north-eastern Venezuela

C. c. roraimae:

Southern Venezuela to Guyana and extreme north-western Brazil

C. c. cyanea:

Paraguay to south-eastern Brazil (southern Bahia) and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones)

Habitat

Atlantic forest and forest edges and gardens.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists almost entirely of fruit and berries, with the addition of a few insects.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Blue-naped Chlorophonia. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blue-naped_Chlorophonia

External Links

Search for photos of Blue-naped Chlorophonia in the gallery

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.1