Alterntative name: Sooty-capped Bush Tanager
- Chlorospingus pileatus
Identification
14 cm (5½ in)
- Black head
- Broad white supercilium
- Greyish-white throat
- Olive upperparts
- Yellow underparts, becoming white on the belly
Sexes similar
Juvenile: yellowish, with indistinct olive streaking on underparts
Distribution
South America: found in Costa Rica and western Panama.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 2 subspecies[1]:
- C. p. pileatus:
- Mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama (Volcán de Chiriquí)
- C. p. diversus:
- Mountains of western Panama (eastern Chiriquí)
Habitat
Mossy mountain forests and adjacent bushy clearings.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of small arthropods and fruit.
Breeding
They construct a bulky cup nest from moss, lichen and fine grass. It is either placed in crevice on top of a vertical bank, in a dense low shrub under a tuft of moss, or in epiphytes on a tree branch. The clutch contains 1-2 white eggs, with pinkish-brown speckles
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- 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/
- Hilty, S. (2020). Sooty-capped Chlorospingus (Chlorospingus pileatus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.scbtan1.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Sooty-capped Chlorospingus. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Sooty-capped_Chlorospingus
External Links
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