Hooded Tanager (Nemosia pileata)

Identification & Behavior: ~13 cm (5.1 in). The Hooded Tanager is bluish above and whitish (male) or whitish with buff (female) below. The male has a black cap, sides of the head, and neck. The female has a bluish head concolor with the back and yellow lower mandible.  Both sexes have white lores and yellow iris. The Hooded Tanager favors tall second growth along forest edges and river islands. The female is similar to a Bicolored Conebill and a Pearly-breasted Conebill but is distinguished by large size, yellow iris, and, yellow lower mandible.

Status: The Hooded Tanager is common along major rivers in northern Amazonia, but uncommon to rare in Southeast Peru. It also occurs in Co, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Tangara Encapuchada.

Sub-species: Hooded Tanager (Nemosia pileata nana), Berlepsch, 1912.  NE Peru and W Brazil (E to lower R Madeira).
(N. p. caerulea), (Wied), 1831.  E & S Brazil (S of R Amazon and E of R Tapajós), and extreme SE Peru E to E Bolivia.

Meaning of Name: Nemosia: Gr. Nemos, nemo= glade, to drive to pasture. pileata: L. pileatus= capped, pileus= felt-cap.

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