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Multicolored Tanager

A species of Chlorochrysa Tanagers
Scientific name : Chlorochrysa nitidissima Genus : Chlorochrysa Tanagers

Multicolored Tanager, A species of Chlorochrysa Tanagers
Botanical name: Chlorochrysa nitidissima
Genus: Chlorochrysa Tanagers
Multicolored Tanager (Chlorochrysa nitidissima) Photo By Lars Petersson

Description

The multicolored tanager is a small-sized passerine bird approximately 12 cm (5 in.) long. Males have a yellow crown, face, mantle, and throat; chestnut and black ear coverts; bright green nape and wings; blue rump, breast, and belly; and a black patch in the center of the underparts. Females are duller and lack the yellow mantle and black patch on the underparts. Immature birds of both sexes resemble females, but are duller.
Size
12 cm
Nest Placement
Tree
Feeding Habits
Multicolored Tanager primarily forages for insects under leaves and consumes ripe fruit from Cordia, Miconia, Palicourea, and Ficus while clinging to branches. Multicolored Tanager routinely joins mixed-species flocks in the canopy.
Habitat
The multicolored Tanager typically resides in humid and wet mossy forests, including older second-growth woodlands and forested borders, that provide a dense and lush vegetation canopy. These environments are generally found in the broad geographical region of the central and eastern slopes of the western Andes, also extending very locally to certain areas on the Pacific slope.
Dite type
Insectivorous

General Info

Feeding Habits

Bird food type

Distribution Area

The multicolored tanager is endemic to the interior of wet montane forests of the Occidental and Central Cordillera of Colombia. It is found mainly from 1300 to 2200 meters above sea level; however, some records indicate it can be found as low as 900 meters, especially in the Department of Cauca. It has been recorded in the Departments of Cauca, Valle del Cauca, Choco, Quindío, Risaralda, Caldas, and Antioquia. It seems to prefer mature forests, although it has also been recorded in mature secondary forests and forest edges. Most of the recent records of the species come from the Valle del Cauca Department, where it resides year-round and remains fairly common even in small forest fragments.

Species Status

The IUCN has listed this species as vulnerable, mainly because of its small range, and also because it is only known from a small number of locations. The multicolored tanager used to be fairly common, but population declines have been recorded throughout its range owing to ongoing habitat destruction, and nowadays it is only encountered very infrequently, primarily in remnant forest fragments. Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to the species: approximately 81% of its habitat has been lost to date. Renjifo suggested that this species is very sensitive to habitat fragmentation as it is found in 16% of point counts from interior, continuous forest, but in only 3% of point counts in forest fragments. The expanding network of roads across the species' range has led to increases in logging, mining, agriculture, and human settlement. Although the species occurs in protected areas with large tracts of suitable habitat like Farallones de Cali, Munchique, and Los Nevados National Parks, most recent records come from unprotected and private forests in the Valle del Cauca Department. Proposed conservation actions include increasing the number and size of protected areas within the species' range, as well as enforcing conservation measures in previously protected areas, and providing non-damaging alternatives to settlers. Scientific research studies are necessary in order to accurately estimate the size of the different subpopulations and to gain insight about the species' ecological requirements. Most recent records for the multicolored tanager come from the Valle del Cauca department, in the Western Andes right outside Cali. Since the construction of the Cali-Buenaventura road during the first decade of the twentieth century, this area has been heavily transformed, mainly for agriculture and cattle ranching, and the remaining forest patches range from 10 to 400 ha. Two Important Bird Areas (Chicoral and San Antonio) have been declared in the area within the last two decades, which has led to increasing awareness in the local community to bird conservation. These areas are connected to Los Farallones National Park (also an Important Bird Area), which has a total area of around 150,000 ha. Seven Civil Society Reserves and one Regional Reserve are also part of the habitat protected for this and other threatened species in the locality. Bosque de Yotoco Reserve is another Important Bird Area in the Valle del Cauca department where this species occurs. In addition to protected areas, several NGOs work in various aspects of conservation in the zone, especially environmental education with the local communities.
Multicolored Tanager (Chlorochrysa nitidissima) Multicolored Tanager (Chlorochrysa nitidissima) Photo By Lars Petersson

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