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Family: Thraupidae
Brown-headed Bush Tanager, more...Common Bush Tanager, Common Bush-tanager (es: Chinchinero Común, Tangara-de-monte Común)
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Bocas Species Database Habitat: This Bush-Tanager species is fairly common in canopy and humid forest borders and shrubby clearings in the western highlands. Distribution: This species has been reported from central Mexico to western Panama; Colombia and northern Venezuela to northwestern Argentina. Natural History Notes: The Common Bush-Tanager is a fairly active bird that will travel in groups often composed of different bird species. This bird is fairly noisy and you will hear a high song with notes like "whichis, whichis, witchery, tsee, tseep, seeur" that will often include many variations. Conservation status according to IUCN 2008 Red list: Least Concern (LC). Characteristics: This species has a total length of 5.5 inches (measured from tip of bill to end of tail). This species has three races encountered in Panama and we will describe the races reported from Bocas del Toro: regionalis and novicius. The bird regionalis has an olive brown plumage on the above with a brown had and crown grayer. We can also distinguish a white spot behind the eye. Then, the throat is whitish with brown dots and yellow band crosses the breast and becomes more olive on the flanks. The center of the breast and the belly are white. The bird novicius looks similar but the head shows a darker coloration, the throat is more beige and the band that crosses the breast is more orange. |