Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thraupidae > Sericossypha > Sericossypha albocristataSericossypha albocristata (White-capped Tanager)Synonyms: Tanagra albocristatus The white-capped tanager (Sericossypha albocristata) At a weight of 114 g (4 oz) and a length of 24 cm (9.5 in), it is the heaviest but not the longest species of tanager. This species is glossy black overall with a large white crown and a red throat (which is brightest in adult males). It occurs in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1600–3200 m. It lives in humid forest in groups of up to 20 individuals. Flocks of these tanagers stay in tight formation, often foraging from tree to tree together. They may eat fruits, seeds, hymenoptera, and coleoptera. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.5838 EDGE Score: 3.74562 |
Adult Weight [1] | 114 grams |  | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 70 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 10 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 50 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 30 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 20 % |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Isler, ML & Isler, PR 1999. The tanagers: natural history, distribution, and identification. Second edition, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC ♦ 2Hamish 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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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