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

Alterntative name: Sooty-capped Bush Tanager

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

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
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

External Links

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+[[Image:Sooty-capped Bush-tanager Costa Rica.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Male<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|Stanley+Jones|Stanley Jones}} <br />San José Province, [[Costa Rica]], March 2007]]
-[[Image:Sooty-capped Bush-tanager Costa Rica.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo of male by {{user|Stanley+Jones|Stanley Jones}} <br />[[ San José Province]], [[Costa Rica]], March,  2007]]
+'''Alterntative name: Sooty-capped Bush Tanager'''
-'''Alterntative name: Sooty-capped Chlorospingus'''
 ;[[:Category:Chlorospingus|Chlorospingus]] pileatus
-[[Image:Sooty-capped_Bush_Tanagera.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by {{user|Firecrest15|Firecrest15}}<br>Location: Savegre river valley, [[Costa Rica]]]]
 ==Identification==
-.5 cm. Black head with a white supercilium and a grey throat. Olive upperparts and yellow underparts, becoming white on the belly.
+[[Image:Sooty-capped_Bush_Tanagera.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo &copy; by {{user|Firecrest15|Firecrest15}}<br />Savegre river valley, [[Costa Rica]]]]
+cm (5½ in)
+*Black head
+*Broad white [[Topography#Heads|supercilium]]
+*Greyish-white throat
+*Olive upperparts
+*Yellow underparts, becoming white on the belly
+Sexes similar<br />
+Juvenile: yellowish, with indistinct olive streaking on underparts
 ==Distribution==
-[[Costa Rica]] and western [[Panama]].
+[[South America]]: found in [[Costa Rica]] and western [[Panama]].
 ==Taxonomy==
+====Subspecies====
+There are 2 subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>:
+:*''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==
-It builds a bulky cup nest on banks, in a dense bush, or hidden amongst vines in a tree.  2 pink-brown marked white eggs are laid.
+====Diet====
+Their main diet consists of small arthropods and fruit.
-The diet includes insects, spiders and small fruits.
+====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==
+#{{Ref-Clements6thOct22}}#{{Ref-GillDonskerRasmussen22V13.2}}#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
+{{ref}}
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+{{GSearch|"Chlorospingus pileatus" {{!}} "Sooty-capped Chlorospingus" {{!}} "Sooty-capped Bush Tanager" {{!}} "Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager"}}
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