Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thraupidae > Hemithraupis > Hemithraupis flavicollis

Hemithraupis flavicollis (Yellow-backed Tanager)

Synonyms: Nemosia flavicollis (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-backed tanager (Hemithraupis flavicollis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname; also extreme eastern Panama in Central America. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Hemithraupis flavicollis

Infraspecies

Hemithraupis flavicollis albigularis
Hemithraupis flavicollis aurigularis
Hemithraupis flavicollis centralis
Hemithraupis flavicollis flavicollis
Hemithraupis flavicollis hellmayri
Hemithraupis flavicollis insignis
Hemithraupis flavicollis melanoxantha
Hemithraupis flavicollis obidensis
Hemithraupis flavicollis ornata
Hemithraupis flavicollis peruana
Hemithraupis flavicollis sororia

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.59678
EDGE Score: 1.72219
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12.8 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  60 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  80 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  20 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Goupia glabra[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Isler, ML & Isler, PR 1999. The tanagers: natural history, distribution, and identification. Second edition, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4The fruits of selectivity: how birds forage on Goupia glabra fruits of different ripeness, H. Martin Schaefer, Veronika Schaefer, J Ornithol (2006) 147:638–643
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0