Nombre en español: Tangará Puntosa
Nombre en inglés: Spotted Tanager
Nombre científico: Ixothraupis punctata
Familia: Thraupidae
La tángara goteada (Ixothraupis punctata), también denominada tángara punteada, tangara puntosa y tángara de mejillas grises, es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Thraupidae que vive en Sudamérica.
Descripción
En promedio mide 12,7 cm de longitud y pesa 15 g. Su dorso es verde brillante con el centro de las plumas negros, que dan un aspecto de escamas. Tiene la cara, garganta y pecho de color blancuzco azulado; el vientre blanco con puntos negros; y los flancos y la región infracaudal de color verde pistacho. Sus alas y cola son negras con las puntas verde amarillentas.
Distribución y hábitat
Se encuentra en Bolivia, Brasil, Ecuador, la Guayana francesa, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela.1 Además, en 2012 fue hallada en Colombia.
Sus hábitats naturales son las selvas húmedas tropicales de la vertiente oriental de los Andes, entre los 600 y 2.000 m de altitud.
Alimentación
Se alimenta de frutos, especialmente de bayas. También come el polen de las flores e insectos.
Reproducción
Llega a la madurez sexual a los 12 meses. Construye un nido en forma de cuenco. La hembra pone de 2 a 3 huevos y los pichones nacen 15 a 17 días después.
Spotted tanager
The spotted tanager (Ixothraupis punctata) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Taxonomy
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the spotted tanager in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in the West Indies. He used the French name Le tangara verd piqueté des Indes and the Latin name Tangara viridis indica punctulata. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson in his Ornithologie. One of these was the spotted tanager. Linnaeus included a terse description, coined the binomial name Tanagra punctata and cited Brisson’s work. The specific name punctata is Latin for «spotted».[5] This species is now placed in the genus Tangara which had been introduced by Brisson. There are five subspecies.
The Spotted Tanager (Ixothraupis punctata) is a small and active member of the genus Ixothraupis. They are overall bright green in color, with large black spots covering much of their plumage. They are South American endemics, occurring in Venezuela, the Guianas, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and possibly Colombia . Their distribution is unusual, with one subspecies occurring in northern Amazonia and the other four subspecies found far away, in the northern and central Andes. Spotted Tanagers occur from lowlands up to 1700 m, but Andean populations are found between 700 and 1700 m. Like most species of Tangara, they are omnivorous and feed on fruit and arthropods. They primarily search leaves and flower buds for their arthropod prey. The breeding behavior (including information on the nest and eggs) remain undescribed. Little information is known about other aspects of their biology, including demography, molts, and populations sizes. Although the Spotted Tanager is sensitive to disturbance and their populations are declining, the IUCN has classified them as «Least Concern» relative to other avian species.
Fuentes: Wikipedia/eBird/xeno-canto/Birds of the world
