Photo by Stanley Jones
Podocarpus National Park, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador, November 2014
- Lanio fulvus
Identification
15 - 17cm. A slender tanager with a strong, sharply hooked bill.
Male
- Black hood
- Black tail and upperwing
- Apricot-yellow upperparts, brightest on nape
- Large tawny-rufous breast patch
- Yellowish-ochre rest of underparts, turning cinnamon on undertail-coverts
- Black hooked bill
- peruvianus darker overall and more fulvous
Female
- Variable
- Greyish-brown crown
- Warm brown upperparts
- Pale dull reddish-brown side of head becoming grey-buff on throat
- Ochraceous olive breast and orangish-buff on belly and undertail-coverts
Immature males are similar to females but have black patches on head.
Distribution
South America: found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Guianas and Brazil north of the Amazon.
Widespread and fairly common.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 2 subspecies[1]:
- L. f. peruvianus:
- L. f. fulvus:
Habitat
Found in varzea forest and tall, humid terra firme forest.
From lowlands up to 1350m, locally higher.
Behaviour
Acts as a sentinel in mixed-species flocks where it is usually at the centre of the flock activity.
Diet
Feeds on insects and seeds.
Single birds sit often upright on a perch at middle-level or subcanopy and wait for other birds to flush insects which they catch in rapid sallies.
Breeding
Little data on breeding. Breeds in French Guiana in October.
Movements
A resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2011. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 16: Tanagers to New World Blackbirds. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553781
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Fulvous Shrike-Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 21 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fulvous_Shrike-Tanager
