Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thraupidae > Tangara > Tangara dowiiTangara dowii (Spangle-cheeked Tanager)Synonyms: Calliste dowii The spangle-cheeked tanager (Tangara dowii) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is an endemic resident breeder in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Formerly considered conspecific with the green-naped tanager, it is now known that theses two species differ geographically and genetically. Spangle-cheeked tanagers occur in pairs, family groups, or as part of a mixed-species feeding flock (particularly those containing common bush tanagers). They eat small fruit, usually swallowed whole, insects and spiders. The spangle-cheeked tanager’s call is a high tsip. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.97171 EDGE Score: 1.60376 |
Adult Weight [1] | 20 grams | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Tropical cloud forests | Wintering Geography [2] | Non-migrartory | Wintering Habitat [2] | Tropical cloud forests | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [3] | 50 % | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 50 % | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 50 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 50 % | | Clutch Size [4] | 2 |
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Countries |
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Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Talamancan montane forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Arenal-Monteverde |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Central Volcanic Cordillera |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cerro Santiago |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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El Rodeo, Cerros de Escazú and La Carpintera |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Fortuna Forest Reserve |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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General de División Omar Torrijos Herrera National Park |
Panama |
A1, A2 |
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La Amistad Caribe |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Amistad International Park |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Los Santos, La Amistad Pacífico |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Palo Seco Protection Forest |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Santa Clara |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Santa Fé National Park |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Talamanca Highlands |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Volcán Barú National Park |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 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 ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 5Tropical Fruit-Eating Birds and Their Food Plants: A Survey of a Costa Rican Lower Montane Forest, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, William A. Haber, K. Greg Murray, Carlos Guindon, Biotropica Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 173-192 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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