Alternative name: Olive Tanager
- Chlorothraupis carmioli
Includes: Yellow-lored Tanager
Identification
16 cm (6¼ in)
- Olive-green head and entire upperparts, including upperwing-coverts and tail
Sexes similar
Distribution
Central and [[South America
Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
Taxonomy
Frenata is sometimes split as Yellow-lored Tanager.
Subspecies
Four subspecies recognized[1]:
- C. c. carmioli from eastern Nicaragua to northwest Panama
- C. c. magnirostris in western Panama
- C. c. lutescens from eastern Panama to northwest Colombia
- C. c. frenata from southern Colombia to northwest Bolivia
Habitat
Humid and wet forests and secondary growth, both in the foothills and lowlands.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of arthropods, such as beetles, katydids, cockroaches and crickets. They also eat some berries.
Breeding
The nest is a neat cup constructed from mosses and long plant fibres.
Gallery
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References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2017)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Carmiol's Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Carmiol%27s_Tanager
