Black-and-white Becard - BirdForum Opus

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, and Venezuela.

Taxonomy

This species formerly included Cryptic Becard

Subspecies

Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:

• P. a. ornatus:

• Costa Rica to western Panama (Chiriquí and Veraguas)

• P. a. albogriseus:

• Subtropical East Andes (Boyacá) and Santa Marta Mountains of northern Colombia as well as northern Venezuela

The former subspecies coronatus is now considered a synonym of albogriseus.

Habitat

Canopy and understorey of dry and moist forests, montanes.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of insects and fruit.

References

1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
3. Juárez, R., P. Pyle, and P. F. D. Boesman (2023). Black-and-white Becard (Pachyramphus albogriseus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (B. K. Keeney, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.bawbec7.01
4. Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Black-and-white Becard. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-and-white_Becard

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