- Hemithraupis flavicollis
Identification
13 cm (5 in)
- Black upperparts
- Yellow rump and lower back
- Small white speculum on wing
- Bright yellow below the throat and crissum
- Whitish mottled underparts
- Bill: black above and pink below
Female: dark olive upperparts; yellow underparts, with greyer flanks. The wings have a broad yellow edge.
Distribution
Central and South America:
Central America: occurs only in Panama
South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 11 subspecies[1]:
- H. f. ornata: Tropical eastern Panama (Darién) and extreme north-western Colombia
- H. f. albigularis: Colombia (upper Sinú, lower Cauca, middle Magdalena valleys)
- H. f. peruana: South-central Colombia to eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru (north of Río Marañón)
- H. f. aurigularis: Extreme south-eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela and northern Brazil
- H. f. hellmayri: South-eastern Venezuela (eastern Bolívar) to western Guyana (Merumé Mountains)
- H. f. flavicollis: Suriname, French Guiana and adjacent Brazil north of the Amazon
- H. f. sororia: Northern Peru (south of Río Marañón)
- H. f. centralis: South-eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and central Brazil
- H. f. obidensis: Northern Brazil (along north bank of the lower Amazon in Pará)
- H. f. melanoxantha: Eastern Brazil (Pernambuco and Bahia)
- H. f. insignis: outh-Eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro)
Habitat
Moist lowland mostly terra firma forests but also sometimes in varzea forests.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists of a variety of arthropds, insects and fruit.
Movements
A resident species.
References
- 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/
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)
- Planet of Birds
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-backed Tanager. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-backed_Tanager
