Hooded mountain tanager

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Hooded mountain tanager
Hooded mountain tanager (Buthraupis montana cucullata) Caldas.jpg
Buthraupis montana cucullata, Colombia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Buthraupis
Cabanis, 1851
Species:
B. montana
Binomial name
Buthraupis montana
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Hooded mountain tanager range map

The hooded mountain tanager (Buthraupis montana) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Buthraupis. It is found in the forests and woodlands of the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, at altitudes between 1,800 and 3,000 m (5,900 and 9,800 ft). [1] [2] At 23 centimetres (9.1 in) and 96 grams (3.4 oz), it is one of the largest tanagers. It has a black head and thighs, a blue back and bright yellow belly, with red eyes. [2]

Taxonomy

In Peru Buthraupis montana Hooded Mountain Tanager, Puno, Peru (cropped).jpg
In Peru

The hooded mountain tanager was formally described in 1837 by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye from a specimen collected in the Bolivian Yungas. They coined the binomial name Aglaia montana. [3] [4] It is now the only species placed in the genus Buthraupis that was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis. [5] [6] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek bou- meaning "huge" and thraupis, an unknown small bird but used by ornithologists to signify a tanager. The specific name is from the Latin montanus meaning "of the mountains". [7]

Six subspecies are recognised: [6]

References

  1. 1 2 BirdLife International (2016). "Buthraupis montana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22722601A94774641. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722601A94774641.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Steven L. Hilty (2003). Birds of Venezuela. Princeton University Press. pp. 758–759. ISBN   0-691-09250-8.
  3. d'Orbigny, Alcide; Lafresnaye, Frédéric de (1837). "Synopsis avium". Magasin de Zoologie (in Latin). 7 (2): 1–88 [32].
  4. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 329.
  5. Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum: Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 29.
  6. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  7. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 81, 259. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.