Tawny-capped Euphonia - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by Stanley Jones
Villa Blanca Cloud Forest Hotel property. Los Angeles de San Ramón, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica, March 2006

Euphonia anneae

Identification

11 cm (4¼ in) Male: Boldly marked with tawny crown, dark purple face, neck and back, and bright yellow breast and belly. Crissum and undertail white.
Female: Much more dully colored, with smaller tawny area on forehead, back and sides olive-yellow, buff breast and belly.

Distribution

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

Taxonomy

Female, Subspecies rufivertex
Photo by Stanley Jones
Altos del Maria, Panamá Province, Panama, December 2017

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• E. a. anneae:

• Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and extreme western Panama

• E. a. rufivertex:

• Tropical western Panama (Veraguas) to north-western Colombia (Chocó)

Habitat

Dense humid and wet cloudforest and forest edges; observed at heights around 1,097 m ( 3,600 ft).

Behaviour

Diet

The diet consists mostly of small berries, including mistletoe berries and figs.

Breeding

Their circular nest has a side entrance.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. BF member observations
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Jan 2018)

• List of references

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