Huallaga Tanager
A species of Silver-billed tanagers Scientific name : Ramphocelus melanogaster Genus : Silver-billed tanagers
Huallaga Tanager, A species of Silver-billed tanagers
Botanical name: Ramphocelus melanogaster
Genus: Silver-billed tanagers
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Description
Photo By Don Roberson
Description
The Huallaga tanager (Ramphocelus melanogaster) or black-bellied tanager, is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Size
17 cm
Habitat
The huallaga Tanager predominantly thrives in secondary forests, frequently utilizing the peripheries of tropical lowland evergreen forests and river-edge forests. It also adapts to second-growth scrub. This bird is quite common within its milieu, found mainly in hill tropical zones. Broadly, it is native to two zoogeographic regions: the Central Andes and the Southern Amazonian.
Dite type
Frugivorous
Photo By Don Roberson
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Tanagers Genus
Silver-billed tanagers Species
Huallaga Tanager