Sooty-capped Chlorospingus

Male
Photo © by Stanley Jones
San José Province, Costa Rica, March 2007

Alterntative name: Sooty-capped Chlorospingus

Chlorospingus pileatus

Identification

Photo © by Firecrest15
Savegre river valley, Costa Rica

14 cm (5½ in)

• Black head
• Broad white supercilium
• Greyish-white throat
• Olive upperparts
• Yellow underparts, becoming white on the belly

Sexes similar
Juvenile: yellowish, with indistinct olive streaking on underparts

Distribution

South America: found in Costa Rica and western Panama.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• C. p. pileatus:
• Mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama (Volcán de Chiriquí)
• C. p. diversus:
• Mountains of western Panama (eastern Chiriquí)

Habitat

Mossy mountain forests and adjacent bushy clearings.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of small arthropods and fruit.

Breeding

They construct a bulky cup nest from moss, lichen and fine grass. It is either placed in crevice on top of a vertical bank, in a dense low shrub under a tuft of moss, or in epiphytes on a tree branch. The clutch contains 1-2 white eggs, with pinkish-brown speckles

References

1. 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/
2. Hilty, S. (2020). Sooty-capped Chlorospingus (Chlorospingus pileatus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.scbtan1.01

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Sooty-capped Chlorospingus. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Sooty-capped_Chlorospingus

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