Yellow-throated Euphonia

Photo by Reini
Fortuna, Costa Rica, February 2005

Euphonia hirundinacea

Identification

10 cm (4 in). As with all Euphonias, they have short tails and stocky bodies
Male

• Yellow underparts including the throat
• Blue upperparts
• Yellow forehead (just reaches the crown in front of the eye)
  

Female: plumage is dull green with pale belly and dark legs.

Distribution

Central America: found from north-eastern Mexico to western Panama.

Taxonomy

Female
Photo by Dave Clark
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica, February 2010

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• E. h. hirundinacea:

• Gulf-Caribbean lowlands of eastern Mexico to eastern Nicaragua

• E. h. gnatho:

• North-western Nicaragua to Costa Rica and extreme western Panama

Habitat

In dry areas prefers gallery forest and moist evergreen woodland; in wetter areas inhabits forest edge, semi-open, plantations. Cloud forests.

Behaviour

Breeding

The clutch consists of 5 eggs which are incubated by the female, though both parents feed the young.

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of fruit and berries (mostly mistletoe and figs). They probably also eat some insects.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. AvianWeb
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2017)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-throated Euphonia. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-throated_Euphonia

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