Blue-backed Tanager
Cyanicterus cyanicterus
Large, striking tanager of tall rainforest. Combination of size and blue-and-yellow plumage is diagnostic; female is more extensively yellow below, including on face. A generally uncommon resident of undisturbed forest regions; may also be found in shorter-stature forests on sandy soils, but is generally absent from disturbed and coastal areas. Usually seen with mixed-species flocks in the canopy. Hops clumsily among branches, gleaning insects from foliage. Distinctive, far-carrying call is two-noted, the second lower-pitched.
分类信息
The blue-backed tanager was formally described in 1819 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name Pyranga cyanicterus. The type locality is Cayenne in French Guiana. This species is now the only member of the genus Cyanicterus that was introduced by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850. The word cyanicterus is formed from the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" and ikteros meaning "jaundice-yellow". The blue-backed tanager is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
- 学名
- Cyanicterus cyanicterus
- 命名信息
- (Vieillot, 1819)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Thraupidae
- 属
- Cyanicterus
分布与栖息地
- 迁徙
- Resident species
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- declining
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