THE WORLD BIRDS - An Online Bird Book
THRAUPIDAE - the Tanager Family
Miscellaneous Species
The
Thraupidae are a family of passerine birds found in the Americas. About 60% of tanagers live in South America, and 30% of these species live in the Andes. Most species are endemic to a relatively small area. In addition to "
tanagers",
dacnis,
finches,
flowerpiercers,
honeycreepers,
seedeaters, and many other diversely named species are included in
Thraupidae. The
tangara genus includes some of the most spectacularly colored THE WORLD BIRDS.
Tanagers are omnivorous, and their diets vary from genus to genus. They have been seen eating fruits, seeds, nectar, flower parts, and insects. Many pick insects off branches. Other species look for insects on the undersides of leaves. Yet others wait on branches until they see a flying insect and catch it in the air.
Some birds that are called Tanagers are actually in the Cardinal family
Cardinalidae.
Genus Anisognathus
Found: South America
Tanager,_Black-cheeked_Mountain- also Santa Marta Mountain-Tanager Anisognathus melanogenys Found: Columbia
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John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2)
Nick_Athanas - Columbia

Tanager,_Black-chinned_Mountain- Anisognathus notabilis Found: west slope of the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador
Image by:
1, 2) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 3)
Ben_Tavener - Ecuador 4)
Andy_Morffew - Ecuador



Tanager,_Blue-winged_Mountain- Anisognathus somptuosus Found: Andes from Columbia to Bolivia
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Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 2)
Rafy_Rodriguez - Columbia 3)
Alejandro_Tamayo


Tanager,_Lacrimose_Mountain- Anisognathus lacrymosus Found: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Félix Uribe - Columbia 2)
José_Loaiza - Ecuador 3)
Francesco_Veronesi - Columbia


Tanager,_Scarlet-bellied_Mountain- Anisognathus igniventris Found: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
Image by: 1)
Mountain_Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Luke_Seitz 2)
Francesco_Veronesi - Ecuador 3)
Jei_Pov - Columbia


Genus Buthraupis
These two species of mountain-tangers are found in the Andean highlands of South America
Tanager,_Hooded_Mountain- Buthraupis montana Found: Andean highlands of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 2)
Joao_Quental - Peru 3)
Alejandro_Tamayo - Columbia


Tanager,_Masked_Mountain- Buthraupis wetmorei Found: Andean highlands of s. Colombia, Ecuador, n. Peru
Image by:
1, 2) Francesco_Veronesi - Ecuador 3)
Nick_Athanas - Ecuador


Genus Cnemathraupis
Tanager,_Black-chested_Mountain- Cnemathraupis eximia Found: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Nick_Athanas - Ecuador
Tanager,_Golden-backed_Mountain- Cnemathraupis aureodorsalis Found: Peru
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1, 2) Nick_Athanas - Peru

Genus Coereba - 1 species
Bananaquit Coereba flaveola Found: North America (Florida, but rarely),
Caribbean, South America
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Dick Daniels - Jamaica
2 ,
3, 4) Dick - St. John, Virgin Islands
5, 9) New Jersy Birds 6, 7, 8) Dick - Puerto Rico
1, 2) Juvenile 8) Black morph








Genus Conirostrum
The conebills have a conical shaped bill!
Conebill, Bicolored Conirostrum bicolor Found: South America
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1, 2) New Jersy Birds 3)
Ingeborg_van_Leeuwen - Brazil
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Conebill,_Blue-backed Conirostrum sitticolor Found: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Nick Athanas - Peru 2)
Félix_Uribe - Columbia 3)
Carlos_Henrique - Ecuador


Conebill,_Capped Conirostrum albifrons Found: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
Image by: 1, 2)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Oscar_Johnson in Peru, Alonso_Quevedo_Gil in Columbia 3)
Nick Athanas - Ecuador 4)
Francesco_Veronesi - Ecuador
1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male



Conebill,_Chestnut-vented Conirostrum speciosum Found: South America
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Opisska - Brazil 3)
Nick Athanas - Brazil
2, 4)
Carlos_Henrique
1. 2) Female 3, 4) Male



Conebill, Cinereous Conirostrum cinereum Found: South America (Andes)
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Brendan_Ryan - Chile
2, 3, 4) Dick Daniels - Ecuador



Conebill,_Giant Conirostrum binghami also
Oreomanes fraseri Found: Colombia to Ecuador, and Peru to Bolivia
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Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2)
Nigel_Voaden - Ecuador

Conebill,_Rufous-browed Conirostrum rufum Found: mainly Columbia, also Venezuela
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Nick Athanas - Columbia 2)
Neil_Martinez

Conebill,_Tamarugo Conirostrum tamarugense Found: Chile, southern Peru
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Nick Athanas - Chile 2)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Freddy_Olivares in Chile

Conebill,_White-browed Conirostrum ferrugineiventre Found: Bolivia, Peru
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Nick Athanas - Peru 2)
Håkan_Sandin - Bolivia

Genus Dubusia
Tanager,_Buff-breasted_Mountain- Dubusia taeniata Found: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Nick_Athanas - Ecuador, Peru
1)
D. t. taeniata 2)
D. t. stictocephala

Genus Euneornis - 1 species
Orangequit Euneornis campestris Found: Jamaica
Image by:
1, 2,
3, 4)
Dick Daniels - Jamaica
1, 2) Male 3, 4) Female



Genus Gubernatrix - 1 species
Cardinal,_Yellow Gubernatrix cristata Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
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Alder_Vasquez 2)
Lip_kee - Argentina 3)
Ron_Knight
1) Pair 2) Female 3) Male


Genus Hemispingus
Hemispingus are found in the Andes.
Hemispingus,_Black-capped Hemispingus atropileus Found: Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
Image by: 1, 4)
Nick_Athanas - Ecuador. Peru 2)
Diego Calderon - Columbia 3)
Dave_Curtis - Columbia
4) Subspecies
H. a. auricularis found in Peru. May be separate species due to vocal difference.



Hemispingus,_Black-eared Hemispingus melanotis Found: Bolivia, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela
Image by: 1, 3)
Nick_Athanas 2)
Francesco_Veronesi
1)
H. m. piurae 3)
H. m. ochraceus


Hemispingus,_Black-headed Hemispingus verticalis also Pseudospingus verticalis Found: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 2)
Félix_Uribe

Hemispingus,_Drab Hemispingus xanthophthalmus also
Pseudospingus xanthophthalmus Found: Bolivia, Peru
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Daniel_Lane in Peru, Glenn Bartley in Peru

Hemispingus,_Gray-capped Hemispingus reyi also
Kleinothraupis reyi Found: western Venezuela
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Karla Pérez 2)
Fernando_Flores

Hemispingus,_Oleaginous Sphenopsis frontalis also
Hemispingus frontalis Found: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Juan_Arango in Venezuela
Hemispingus,_Orange-browed Hemispingus calophrys also
Kleinothraupis calophrys Found: Boliva, southern Peru
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Ian_Davies in Bolivia
Hemispingus, Parodi's Hemispingus parodii also
Kleinothraupis parodii Found: Peru
Image by:
1,
2) Dominic
Sherony 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Luke_Seitz


Hemispingus,_Rufous-browed Hemispingus rufosuperciliaris also
Poospiza rufosuperciliaris Found: Peru
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Nick_Athanas - Peru
Hemispingus,_Slaty-backed Hemispingus goeringi also
Poospiza goeringi Found: Venezuela
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Joseph_Smit
Hemispingus,_Superciliared Hemispingus superciliaris also
Thlypopsis superciliaris Found: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 2)
Michael_Woodruff - Ecuador 3)
Carol_Foil - Peru


Genus Lanio
Tanager,_Black-throated_Shrike- Lanio aurantius Found: Mexico, Central America
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Sc0tt_Bower 2)
Amado_Demesa

Tanager,_Fulvous_Shrike- Lanio fulvus Found: northern South America
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Jerry_Oldenettel - Venezuela 2)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Roger_Alhman

Tanager,_White-throated_Shrike- Lanio leucothorax Found: Central America
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David_Rodríguez_Arias 2)
Michael_Woodruff - Costa Rica 3)
Barbara_Dye - Coast Rica
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Tanager,_White-winged_Shrike- Lanio versicolor Found: Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru
Image by:
1, 2) Nick_Athanas - Brazil 3)
Hector_Bottai - Brazil
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Genus Loxipasser - 1 species
Grassquit,_Yellow-shouldered Loxipasser anoxanthus Found: Jamaica
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Catherine_McFadden, Sam_Woods

Genus Nephelornis - 1 species
Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli Found: central Peru
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Nick Athanas
Genus Pseudosaltator - 1 species
Tanager,_Rufous-bellied_Mountain- Pseudosaltator rufiventris Found: Bolivia, Argentina
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Nick_Athanas - Argentina

Genus Tiaris
Grassquit, Black-faced Tiaris bicolor Found: Caribbean and northern South America
Image by:
1, 2, 4) Dick Daniels - Jamaica
3, 5) Dick - Puerto Rico
6, 7)
New Jersy Birds
1, 2, 3) Female 4 - 6) Male





Grassquit,_Cuban Tiaris canorus Found: Cuban and other islands
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Ekaterina_Chernetsova 2)
Richard_Taylor 3)
Mario_Madrona
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Grassquit,_Dull Tiaris obscurus Found: South America
Image by:
1, 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador, Peru 2)
Dominic_Sherony - Peru
3)
Tiaris obscurus obscurus


Grassquit,_Sooty Tiaris fuliginosus Found: South America
Image by: 1)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Alison_Bentley 2)
Dario Sanches
1) Female 2) Male

Grassquit, Yellow-faced Tiaris olivaceus Found: Central America
Image by:
1, 2, 3, 7) Dick Daniels - Jamaica
4) New Jersy Birds 5)
Mark_Peck 6)
Dick - Boquette, Panama Mark_Peck
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5, 6, 7) Male





Genus Volatinia - 1 species
Grassquit,_Blue-black Volatinia jacarina Found:
Central and South America
Image by: 1)
Dario Sanches - Brazil
2, 5)
Cláudio Timm - Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil
3, 6) Dick Daniels - Panama, , Ecuador
7)
New Jersy Birds 4, 8) Nick Athanas - Columbia
1 - 4 Female 5 - 8) Male






