Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Turquoise Tanager
Tangara mexicana
- epik
- 35 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Named mexicana despite living in Trinidad and South America, not Mexico. Travels in noisy mixed flocks through forest edges.
- Populasi
- Not quantified as a global numeric figure; range described as large (~7 million km2) and species reported as common through much of it
- Habitat
- Humid lowland tropical/subtropical moist forest, forest edges, second growth and swamp forest; also plantations and rural gardens/semi-open cultivated areas
- Fakta menarik
- Despite its scientific name Tangara mexicana, the Turquoise Tanager has never been recorded in Mexico — Linnaeus based his 1766 description on specimens from Cayenne, French Guiana — and it instead ranges across the Amazon basin and northern South America in noisy, highly social flocks of its own kind.
- Sebaran
- Northern and central South America: Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Trinidad, and Brazil (mainly the Amazon basin), extending south to Bolivia (with some sources also citing Ecuador/Peru at the range's western edge); despite the scientific name it does not occur in Mexico or Central America
- Makanan
- Primarily fruit, taken while perched, supplemented with insects and other arthropods gleaned from thin twigs and foliage
- Ukuran
- 0,14 m
- Masa hidup
- 3,9 tahun
