Yellow-lored Tanager
Chlorothraupis frenata
Large and chunky with stout dark bill. Nondescript plumage: entirely olive-green with slightly brighter yellowish throat and upper breast. Namesake yellow lores are not always obvious. Sexes alike. Compare with female Red-crowned Ant-Tanager, which is somewhat more slender and longer-tailed, is duskier brown overall, and has paler legs. Found on the east slope of the Andes from southern Colombia to Bolivia. Small flocks move through lower and middle levels of humid forests in foothills and adjacent lowlands. Often in mixed feeding flocks with other species. Listen for its loud, long-winded song of whistles and chips, along with rolling harsh scold calls.
Identification
The yellow-lored tanager is about 17 cm (6.7 in) in overall length. The upper parts are a dull olive green and the underparts are a rather paler olive green. The throat is slightly yellower than the rest of the underparts, and is streaked in the male while being a uniform pale yellow in the female. The underparts of the female are paler than those of the male, and the female has a yellowish patch in front of the eyes. The beak is relatively stout and is black in both sexes.
Taxonomy
The yellow-lored tanager was formally described in 1907 by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch from a specimen collected in the Marcapata District of eastern Peru. He considered his specimen as a subspecies of Carmiol's tanager and coined the trinomial name Chlorothraupis carmioli frenata. The epithet frenata is from Latin frenatus meaning "bridled". The yellow-lored tanager is now treated as a separate species. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
- Scientific name
- Chlorothraupis frenata
- Authority
- Berlepsch, 1907
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Genus
- Chlorothraupis
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Behavior
The yellow-lored tanager sometimes forms small groups of 3-4 individuals. It eats arthropods and fruit.
Conservation
- Population trend
- declining
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Distribution
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