Yellow-crowned Euphonia - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Steve G
Arenal, Costa Rica

Euphonia luteicapilla

Identification

Length: 3.75" (9.5 cm).
Male: steel blue above and throat, solid yellow below and on crown to well behind eye.
Female: olive above, yellow below.

Distribution

Central America: found from Nicaragua to eastern Panama.

Taxonomy

Female
Photo by Stanley Jones
Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, March, 2007

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Dry scrub and savannahs in lowlands.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of berries, particularly mistletoe and small fruit.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2015)

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-crowned Euphonia. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-crowned_Euphonia

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