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Capito hypoleucus
Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Magdalena Valley, Colombia, August 2009
Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Magdalena Valley, Colombia, August 2009

Identification

19 cm

  • Yellow-white bill with bluish tip
  • Scarlet forehead
  • Black and white hindcrown and mantle
  • Bluish-black upperparts and sides of head
  • White throat and upper breast
  • Buffish breast-band
  • Yellow-white underparts
  • Yellowish on flanks

Distribution

South America: endimic to Colombia.

Taxonomy

Subspecies[1]

  • C. h. hypoleucus:
  • Central Andes of north-western Colombia (Bolivar to Antioquia)
  • C. h. carrikeri:
  • North-central Colombia (Botero area of Río Porce in Antioquia)
  • C. h. extinctus:
  • Colombia (Magdalena Valley in Caldas, Cundinamarca, Tolima)

Habitat

Tropical wet forest, pastureland, and plantations.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes seeds, fruit and insects.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. BirdLife International
  3. BF Member observations

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