Silver-beaked Tanager

Silver-beaked Tanager

Taxobox
name = Silver-beaked Tanager


image_width = 200px
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Thraupidae
genus = "Ramphocelus"
species = "R. carbo"
binomial = "Ramphocelus carbo"
binomial_authority = (Pallas, 1764)

The Silver-beaked Tanager, "Ramphocelus carbo", is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder in South America from eastern Colombia and Venezuela south to Paraguay and central Brazil, and on Trinidad. It is common and conspicuous in some areas—it may be the bird most often heard and seen in Suriname.Fact|date=April 2008

Silver-beaked Tanagers are 18 cm long and weigh 25 g. Adult males are velvety crimson black with a deep crimson throat and breast. The upper mandible of the bill is black, but the enlarged lower mandible is bright silver in appearance. The bill is pointed upwards in display. The female is much duller, with brownish upperparts, reddish brown underparts and a black bill.

There is considerable plumage variation between the various subspecies, differing mainly in the degree of contrast between the upperparts and the throat and breast.

It occurs in light woodland and cultivation areas. The bulky cup nest is usually built in a bush, and the normal clutch is two green-blue eggs blotched with black-brown. The female incubates the eggs for 11-12 days before they hatch. The chicks fledge after another 11-12 days.

These are social birds which eat mainly fruit, but insects are also taken. The Silver-beaked Tanager is often seen in groups of six to ten, frequently giving a call described as "cheeng". Its song is a slow thin "kick-wick".

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
*cite book
last = ffrench
first = Richard
title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
edition = 2nd edition
year = 1991
publisher = Comstock Publishing
isbn = 0-8014-9792-2
*cite book
last = Hilty
first = Steven L
title = Birds of Venezuela
publisher = Christopher Helm
date = 2003
location = London
isbn = 0-7136-6418-5

External links

* [http://webserv.nhl.nl/~ribot/english/index.htm Page with photos and a sound file] – from the Birds of Suriname
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=9171 Silver-beaked Tanager videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/20110900.htm Stamps] (for Suriname) with RangeMap
* [http://borderland-tours.com/v2/images/stories/borderland/gallery_photos/ecuador/131%20silver-beaked%20tanager.jpgPhoto] ; [http://borderland-tours.com/v2/content/view/47/69/ Article] – borderland-tours
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=silver-beaked+tanager&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Silver-beaked Tanager photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Ramphocelus+carbo Photo-High Res-(shows black/ silver bill)]


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