Hooded Tanager (Nemosia pileata)

Subspecies

Genus	Species	subspecies	Breeding Range	Breeding Range 2	Non Breeding Range
Nemosia	pileata		SA	widespread
Nemosia	pileata	caerulea
Nemosia	pileata	hypoleuca
Nemosia	pileata	interna
Nemosia	pileata	nana
Nemosia	pileata	pileata
Nemosia	pileata	surinamensis

Physical charateristics

It has yellow legs and a yellow iris. The male’s head and sides of the neck are black giving the hooded appearance while the lores are white. Remaining upperparts are blue-grey while underparts are white.

Listen to the sound of Hooded Tanager

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Range

South America : widespread

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest. It is found in light woodland, gallery forest and plantations while in the Amazon Basin it is seen in varzea woodland and forest borders.

Reproduction

Builds an open cup high up on a tree branch. Nest is made out of grass and and dead leaf.

Feeding habits

It lives in small groups of about six birds, seeking insects and perching on bushes and isolated trees.

Conservation

This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Migration

Sedentary throughout range

Distribution map

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