Yellow-crested Tanager (Islerothraupis rufiventer)

Identification & Behavior: ~16.5 cm (6.4 in). The male Yellow-crested Tanager has black upperparts and often difficult to see yellow crest. The breast and middle belly are tawny with yellow sides of the underparts. The rump is yellow-tawny. It has a narrow black band across the base of the throat. The female has a gray head with yellow-olive upperparts and yellow underparts. The Yellow-crested Tanager forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of mature forest often in the company of mixed species flocks. The female is similar to a female Flame-crested Tanager, but these two tanagers may only have limited geographic overlap. Also, see a female White-shouldered Tanager.

Status: The Yellow-crested Tanager is uncommon and largely restricted to the south side of the Amazon and lower Marañon Rivers where it is known to range up to 1200 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Br and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Tangara de Cresta Amarilla.

Sub-species: Yellow-crested Tanager(Islerothraupis rufiventer), (Spix), 1825.

Meaning of Name: Islerothraupis: Isler= in honor of Morton L. Isler and Phyllis R. Isler US ornithologists. Gr. Thraupis= unidentified small bird, perhaps a type of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. rufiventer: L. rufus= ruddy, rufous; venter, ventris= belly.

Formerly known as Tachyphonus rufiventer (2017).

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