White-winged Shrike-Tanager (Lanio versicolor)

Identification & Behavior: ~16.6 cm (6.5 in). The male White-winged Shrike-Tanager has a black head, wings, an tail. The rest of the body is yellow. It has a broad white wing patch. The female is mostly olive-brown with a yellowish center of the belly. It forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of mature forests almost always with mixed species flocks. Both sexes are similar to the Fulvous Shrike-Tanager, but these two tanagers range on opposite sides of the Amazon and Marañon Rivers.

Status: The White-winged Shrike-Tanager is uncommon on the south side of the Amazon and lower Marañon Rivers. It is known to range up to 1200 m along the foothill of the Andes. The White-winged Shrike-Tanager also occurs in Br and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Tangara de Ala Blanca.

Sub-species: White-winged Shrike-Tanager (Lanio versicolor versicolor), (d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye), 1837.

Meaning of Name: Lanio: Genus Lanius Linnaeus, 1758. versicolor: L. versicolor, versicoloris= of various colors.

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