Tangara Enmascarada/Masked Tanager/Stilpnia nigrocincta

Nombre en español: Tangara Enmascarada

Nombre en ingles: Masked Tanager

Nombre científico: Stilpnia nigrocincta

Familia: Thraupidae

Canto: Andrew Spencer

La tangara pechinegra o tangará enmascarada (Stilpnia nigrocincta) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Thraupidae que vive en Sudamérica.

Distribución y hábitat

Esta especie de ave se encuentra distribuida por Brasil, Colombia, Venezuela, Perú, Bolivia y Guyana.

Sus hábitats naturales son los bosques húmedos tropicales.

Masked tanager

The masked tanager (Stilpnia nigrocincta) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

The Masked Tanager, Tangara nigrocincta, is a neotropical bird found in northwestern South America, where it typically forages in the Amazonian forest canopy (Isler and Isler 1999). The colors on this bird include black and various shades of green and blue, with a distinct black “mask,” giving this tanager its descriptive name. The Masked Tanager’s appearance and behavior are similar to those of the Golden-hooded Tanager (Tangara larvata) and the Blue-necked Tanager (Tangara cyanicollis); indeed it formerly was classified as conspecific with the Golden-hooded Tanager (Hilty and Brown 1986, Isler and Isler 1999).