Plain-colored Tanager - BirdForum Opus

This article is incomplete. This article is missing one or more sections. You can help the BirdForum Opus by expanding it.

Photo by PanamaHarpy
El Valle, Panama, September 2011

Tangara inornata

Identification

Very light underside, mid gray upperside, black mask, little iridescent blue area on wing (which is difficult to see most of the time).

Distribution

Central and South America: found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• T. i. rava:

• Caribbean lowlands of south-eastern Costa Rica and western Panama

• T. i. languens:

• Tropical eastern Panama to extreme north-western Colombia

• T. i. inornata:

• Northern Colombia (Sinú, lower Cauca, middle Magdalena valleys)

Habitat

Lowland tropical rain forest.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Plain-colored Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Plain-colored_Tanager

External Links

Search for photos of Plain-colored Tanager in the gallery

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.1