- Chlorospingus ophthalmicus
Identification
13.5 cm
- Olive upperparts
- Yellow underpaarts
- White belly
- Brown head
- Thin supercilium
- Light throat
- White spot behind eye
- Colour of cheek, throat and eye area varies across range
Juvenile
- Brown upperparts
- Darker below
- Dull olive eye spot
Distribution
Central Mexico to Bolivia and northwest Argentina.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 26 subspecies[1]:
- C. o. ophthalmicus: South-eastern Mexico (northern Vera Cruz and southern San Luis Potosí to western Chiapas)
- C. o. albifrons: Sierra Madre del Sur of south-western Mexico (Guerrero and Oaxaca)
- C. o. wetmorei: South-eastern Mexico (Sierra de Tuxtla in Veracruz)
- C. o. dwighti: Caribbean slope of southern Mexico (Chiapas) and eastern Guatemala
- C. o. persimilis: Southern Mexico (southern Oaxaca)
- C. o. postocularis: Pacific slope of southern Mexico (Chiapas) and western Guatemala
- C. o. honduratius: Subtropical El Salvador and Honduras
- C. o. regionalis: Subtropical Nicaragua and eastern Costa Rica
- C. o. novicius: Subtropical south-western Costa Rica and western Panama (Chiriquí)
- C. o. punctulatus: Highlands of western Panama (Veraguas and Coclé)
- C. o. ponsi: Sierra de Perijá (Colombia/Venezuela border)
- C. o. falconensis: North-western Venezuela (San Luis Mountains and Sierra de Aroa)
- C. o. jaqueti: Western slope of Easterm Andes of north-eastern Colombia and northern Venezuela
- C. o. venezuelanus: Andes of south-western Venezuela (Lara, Mérida and Táchira)
- C. o. exitelus: Colombia (eastern slope of Western Andes and Central Andes in Antioquia)
- C. o. nigriceps: Subtropical and lower temperate Andes of Colombia
- C. o. eminens: Eastern Andes of north-eastern Colombia (Norte de Santander and Boyacá)
- C. o. trudis: Colombia (western slope of Andes of Santander at La Pica)
- C. o. macarenae: Eastern Colombia (Macarena Mountains)
- C. o. flavopectus: Eastern Andes of Colombia (southern Santander and western Cundinamarca)
- C. o. phaeocephalus: Subtropical mountains of eastern and western Ecuador
- C. o. hiaticolus: Central Peru
- C. o. cinereocephalus: Subtropical central Peru (Junín)
- C. o. peruvianus: Subtropical southern Peru (Puno)
- C. o. bolivianus: West-central Bolivia (Cochabamba and La Paz)
- C. o. fulvigularis: Central Bolivia (southern Cordillera de Cochabamba)
- C. o. argentinus: Central Bolivia (upper Río Mizque) to northern Argentina (Tucumán)
Habitat
Rain forests, in tangles of bushes and thickets.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects, spiders, small fruits and nectar.
Breeding
The cup nest is built from twigs, roots, leaves and mosses, lined with leaves and fibres. The clutch consists of 1-3 white eggs, with puce and maroon spots, incubated by the female. Both parents feed the young.
Vocalisation
Call: squeaky tseeet or chit.
References
- Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Common Chlorospingus. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Common_Chlorospingus