Turquoise tanager

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Turquoise tanager

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species:
T. mexicana
Binomial name
Tangara mexicana
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Range
Synonyms

Tanagra mexicana Linnaeus, 1766

The turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana) is a medium-sized

conspecific with the white-bellied tanager which is found in the Atlantic Forest
of eastern Brazil.

It occurs in forest, woodland and cultivation. The bulky cup nest is built in a tree or shrub, and the female incubates three brown-blotched grey-green eggs.

These are social birds usually found in groups. They eat a wide variety of fruit and also take insects and other arthropods,[2] often gleaned from twigs.

Taxonomy

The turquoise tanager was

Tangara that was introduced by Brisson.[6][7]

Four subspecies are recognised:[7]

  • T. m. vieilloti (Sclater, PL, 1857) – Trinidad
  • T. m. media (Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902) – east Colombia and Venezuela
  • T. m. mexicana (Linnaeus, 1766) – the Guianas to central Brazil
  • T. m. boliviana (Bonaparte, 1851) – southeast Colombia to east Ecuador, east Peru, west Brazil and north Bolivia

The white-bellied tanager (Tangara brasiliensis) was formerly treated as a subspecies.[7]

Description

T. m. vieiloti from Trinidad is the darkest subspecies

Adult turquoise tanagers are 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weigh 20 g. They are long-tailed and with a dark stout pointed bill. The adult is mainly dark blue and black, with turquoise edging to the

taxa
. Their song is a fast squeaky chatter tic-tic-tic-tic-tic.

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103849376A119556880.en
    . Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Tangara mexicana (Turquoise Tanager)" (PDF). The Online Guide to the Animals of Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
  3. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1766). Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 1 (12th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 315.
  4. ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 3. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. p. 6, Plate 1 fig. 3.
  5. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 361.
  6. ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1 p. 36 and Vol. 3 p. 3.
  7. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Tanagers and allies"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 February 2023.

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