Yellow-green Tanager Bangsia flavovirens Scientific name definitions
- VU Vulnerable
- Names (20)
- Monotypic
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Catalan | tàngara verd-i-groga |
Croatian | žutozelena tangara |
Dutch | Zwartvoorhoofdtangare |
English | Yellow-green Tanager |
English (United States) | Yellow-green Tanager |
French | Tangara jaune-vert |
French (Canada) | Tangara jaune-vert |
German | Olivbergtangare |
Japanese | キミドリヤブフウキンチョウ |
Norwegian | gursetanagarspurv |
Polish | zieleniec oliwkowy |
Russian | Жёлто-зелёная танагра |
Serbian | Peruanska žutozelena tangara |
Slovak | tangara zelenkavá |
Spanish | Tangara Verdiamarilla |
Spanish (Ecuador) | Tangara Verdiamarilla |
Spanish (Spain) | Tangara verdiamarilla |
Swedish | gulgrön busksparv |
Turkish | Yeşil-Sarı Klorospingus |
Ukrainian | Аркея еквадорська |
Bangsia flavovirens (Lawrence, 1867)
Definitions
- BANGSIA
- flavovirens
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Introduction
Known from a small range and relatively few localities in southwest Colombia and western Ecuador, this tanager is listed as Vulnerable by BirdLife International, although the species is fairly common locally. It is known from altitudes between 450 and 1200 m, and is found in wet mossy forests and their borders. Typically encountered in pairs or small groups, the Yellow-green Tanager is often observed associating with mixed-species foraging flocks in the middle strata or subcanopy of forest. Its diet seems relatively catholic, with small fruits, flowers, and insects all having been recorded. In terms of plumage, this is a very uniformly colored tanager, being dull olive above and olive-yellow below, becoming more yellow over the middle and ventral underparts. The brown irides contrast only slightly.
Field Identification
14 cm; 22·5–27 g. Very plain, dingy tanager, almost uniformly coloured throughout; strong-billed. Lores and ocular area are dusky (not in strong contrast to rest of head), otherwise head yellowish-olive (or olive-citrine); upperparts olive with faint yellowish tinge; bend of wing pale yellow (usually hidden), median and greater upperwing-coverts and primary coverts dull dark olive, flight-feathers dusky olive, edged dull yellow, tertials and tail dull dark olive; olive-yellow below, slightly paler and yellower, more olive-ochre, on centre of throat, centre of belly and undertail-coverts; iris brown to dark brown; upper mandible blackish with narrow base blue-grey, lower mandible blue-grey with dusky tip; legs dark grey. Sexes similar. Juvenile undescribed.
Systematics History
Subspecies
Distribution
SW Colombia (W slope of W Andes in upper Anchicayá Valley, in Valle del Cauca; Nariño) and Ecuador (in E Esmeraldas; Pichincha).
Habitat
Movement
Diet and Foraging
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Breeding
Conservation Status
VULNERABLE. Restricted-range species: present in Chocó EBA. Extremely local. At the few sites where it is known in SW Colombia and NW Ecuador it is rare or uncommon and difficult to find. In Colombia, found at one (possibly two) sites close to each other in Valle del Cauca and at four sites (all close together) in Nariño, and large areas of mostly intact habitat exist between these two areas. In Ecuador, recorded in Esmeraldas at El Placer, Awacachi Corridor, Alto Tambo, Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve and Canandé Reserve, and in Pichincha occurs along the Milpe road. The species was relatively numerous along one E ridge of upper Anchicayá Valley, a region afforded protection over the years by privately operated companies because of a small hydropower site. Elsewhere within its tiny known range, pressure from human colonization and deforestation is likely to continue to place this species at serious risk. Logging, deforestation and land-use change are increasing almost throughout the species’ range, with no indication of consideration for the environment, and even in reserves protection of the habitat is not efficiently enforced.
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- Non-Breeding