Lanio Dentado/Fulvous Shrike-Tanager/Lanio fulvus

Nombre en español: Lanio Dentado

Nombre en ingles: Fulvous Shrike-Tanager

Nombre científico: Lanio fulvus

Familia: Thraupidae

Canto: Peter Boesman

El frutero dentado (Lanio fulvus) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Thraupidae, que se encuentra en Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guayana francesa, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela.

Hábitat

Vive en el bosque húmedo tropical de tierra firme y los bordes del bosque, en tierras bajas de la Amazonia, por debajo de los 900 m de altitud.

Descripción

Mide 17 a 19 cm de longitud. En el macho, la cabeza, alas y cola son de color negro; el dorso, los lados y la parte baja del pecho, son de color amarillo ocráceo brillante, con la grupa leonada; tiene un parche de pecho color castaño. El pico es de negro con forma de gancho y un diente en la mandíbula superior. Las patas son negras. La hembra es más opaca; la corona es de color pardo oliváceo; la garganta y la cara son de color gris amarillento; el dorso castaño oliváceo; la grupa, el crísum, los flancos y las coberteras alares son de color castaño rojizo rufo; el pecho y el vientre son de color oliva ocráceo; las alas son negruzcas y la cola marrón.

Fulvous shrike-tanager

The fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The fulvous shrike-tanager was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D’Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon’s text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon’s description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Tangara fulva in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The fulvous shrike-tanager is now placed in the genus Lanio that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager as the type species. The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that had been introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. The specific fulvus is Latin for «tawny», «brown» or «fulvous».

Two subspecies are recognised:

L. f. peruvianus Carriker, 1934 – west Venezuela, south Colombia, east Ecuador and northeast Peru
L. f. fulvus (Boddaert, 1783) – southeast Venezuela, the Guianas and north Brazil

Fulvous Shrike-Tanager is a reasonably widespread canopy-dwelling species of northern Amazonia, where it ranges from the Guianas west to eastern Ecuador and extreme northeastern Peru. Males are distinctive, characterized by their black head, wings and tail, with an ochraceous yellow mantle and underparts, and chestnut patch on the breast. In contrast, females are considerably duller, being dull ochraceous above and below, becoming yellower over the belly and ventral region, and they are also brighter on the rump. Relatively common in the canopy of tall lowland forest, nonetheless Fulvous Shrike-Tanager is not frequently encountered without knowledge of its relatively distinctive vocalizations. These shrike-tanagers are generally found in pairs and these birds act as leaders and sentinels for mixed-species flocks, their loud tchew calls serving to unite and mobilize the flock.