Three-striped Hemispingus - BirdForum Opus

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Peru, June 1, 2013

Alternative name: Three-striped Tanager

Hemispingus trifasciatus

Identification

13cm. A small hemispingus wit a small slender bill.

Black head with long, broad buffy-white supercilium and brownish-olive median crownstripe
Brownish-olive upperparts and tail
Two pale wingbars
Light buff chin, ochre buff throat and underparts, paler and more yellowish on belly
Dark brown iris
Black bill

Sexes similar, juveniles undescribed.

Eastern slopes of the Andes from central Bolivia north to central Peru.
An uncommon to locally fairly common species.

This is a monotypic species.

This species was previously assigned to Hemispingus.

Humid elfin forest, forest islands at edge of paramo and rarely in Chusquea bamboo thickets.
Occurs from 2800 to 4250m, locally lower.

Feeds on insects.
In pairs or small groups often in mixed-species flocks.
No information on breeding.
Presumably a resident species.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. 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. (2025) Three-striped Hemispingus. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 11 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Three-striped_Hemispingus

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