- Pachyramphus albogriseus
Identification
13–14·5 cm (5-5¾ in)
Male
- Black crown with bluish sheen
- Grey upperparts and paler grey underparts
- Tail and wings dark except for white wing bar and white on tip of outer rectrices
Female
- Chestnut cap bordered with black
- Black lores/eye-stripe connect to black border, bordered above with white from front to just above eye
- Sides of head grey
- Underside sulphurish-yellow
- Upperside olive with slightly darker wings and rufous wing bars
Juvenile/immature
- Juvenile female like a drab adult, especially upperside and head.
- Juvenile male like a female with paler crown. Moults to an intermediate plumage before next time reaching adult male plumage.
Distribution
Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy
Subspecies[1]
There are 5 subspecies:
- P. a. ornatus:
- Costa Rica to western Panama (Chiriquí and Veraguas)
- P. a. guayaquilensis:
- Western Ecuador (Guayaquil basin) and Isla Puná
- P. a. coronatus:
- P. a. albogriseus:
- P. a. salvini:
Habitat
Canopy and understorey of dry and moist forests, montanes.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists of insects and fruit.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved August 2015)
- Wikipedia
- Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Black-and-white Becard. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-and-white_Becard
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
