Shrike-like tanager

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Shrike-like tanager
at Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Goiás state, Brazil

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Neothraupis
Hellmayr, 1936
Species:
N. fasciata
Binomial name
Neothraupis fasciata
(
Lichtenstein, MHC
, 1823)

The shrike-like tanager (Neothraupis fasciata), also known as the white-banded tanager, is a South American bird in the tanager

Thraupidae
. It is the only member of the genus Neothraupis.

Taxonomy

The shrike-like tanager was

monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

Description

The plumage of the shrike-like tanager is remarkably similar to that of several species of shrikes in the genus Lanius, but these Corvoidea are quite distantly related songbirds. Males and females of this species look alike. It has a total length of about 16 cm (6+1⁄4 in) and weighs 29–32 g.

Distribution and habitat

It is a bird native to the interior of south-central South America at elevations of 550–1,100 m (1,800–3,610 ft). It is restricted to Cerrado, woodland and shrub of central-eastern Brazil, north-eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Bolivia. It is frequently seen in Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Behaviour

Typically seen in pairs or small groups of up to 12 individuals, with 7 being average. Eats

insects
. Breeds in October and November. The deep, cup-shaped nest, typically placed in a small tree or bush, is lined with grasses. Clutch size 2–3 eggs. The pair are often helped by birds from earlier broods, which have the grey parts of the plumage partially or entirely replaced by brown (this brownish plumage sometimes mistakenly referred to as the adult female plumage).

Nest of Neothraupis fasciata with parasitized nestlings by Philornis torquans.[7]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22722126A132150544.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Lichtenstein, Hinrich (1823). Verzeichniss der Doubletten des Zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin : nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und Fischen (in German). Berlin: T. Trautwein. p. 32.
  3. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 249.
  4. ^ Hellmayr, Carl Eduard (1936). Catalogue of Birds of the Americas and the Adjacent Islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Field Museum Natural History Publications. Zoological Series. Vol. 13 Part 9: Tersinidae-Thraupidae. p. 432.
  5. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  6. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  7. ISSN 0031-1049
    .

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