Green-naped Tanager - BirdForum Opus

Identification

12 cm. A small tanager with a spangled appearance.

Mainly blackish plumage above with pale greenish spangles on crown and nape and a small inconspicuous bluish-green central crown spot
Greenish rump, becoming light blue on uppertail-coverts
Dusky upperwing-coverts with blue edges, dusky flight-feathers with paler blue edges
Dull black chin and throat
Foreneck feathers with blue scaling
Black spots on breast and sides, edgd bluish-green to brownish-yellow
Cinnamon-buff rest of underparts

Sexes similar. Juvenile undescribed.

Duller than Spangle-cheeked Tanager, blackish areas less intense, bluish-green instead of rufous crown patch and underparts paler and duller.

Eastern Panama (Darien) and adjacent Colombia.
Fairly common in its very small range. Only a single record in Colombia, status there uncertain.

This is a monotypic species.
Has been considered conspecific with Spangle-cheeked Tanager.

Montane and pre-montane forest and forest borders.
Occurs mainly above 1350, recorded down to 550 m.

Feeds on berries and fruit.
Reported foraging in groups of 3 to 4 birds in mixed-species flocks, especially with Pirre Chlorospingus.

One recorded nest in August. The nest was ball-shaped and located c. 15 m up between palm-frond leaflets and atop main palm vein.

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

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Green-naped Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Green-naped_Tanager