Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Blue-backed Conebill (Conirostrum sitticolor) - HBW 16, p. 263
French: Conirostre à cape bleue
German: Blaurücken-Spitzschnabel
Spanish: Conirrostro Dorsiazul
Other common names: Bolivian Conebill (cyaneum)
Taxonomy: Conirostrum sitticolor Lafresnaye, 1840, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia.
Genus has sometimes been placed in Coerebidae or Parulidae, but molecular-genetic data indicate that it belongs in present family, with Oreomanes as sister-group. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- pallidum Aveledo & Pérez, 1989 - Sierra de Perijá (Cerro Viruela), in NW Venezuela, and probably also in adjacent Colombia.
- intermedium Berlepsch, 1893 - Andes in Venezuela (Trujillo, Mérida and N Táchira).
- sitticolor Lafresnaye, 1840 - Andes in Venezuela (S Táchira), and from Colombia S to N Peru (Piura, Cajamarca and Amazonas).
- cyaneum Taczanowski, 1875 - Andes of Peru (from Huánuco) S to Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba and W Santa Cruz).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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One ind that was traveling with a mixed flock. Locality Chingaza National Park, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia (ssp sitticolor)
Diego Calderon - COLOMBIA... 1 February 2010 1 year ago 13 sec 2.8
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at carpish tunnel,Huanuco
Locality Peru
Lior Kislev 2 December 2009 1 year ago 3.8 -
adult perched
Locality Tapichalaca Reserve, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador (ssp sitticolor)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 10 December 2008 2 years ago 3.2 -
on a branch
Locality Chicaque Natural Park, San Antonio del Tequendama, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 8 December 2010 1 year ago 2.7 -
Perched on a branch
Locality Yanacocha Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
David Weaver 38 weeks ago 2
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Song. Locality Yanacocha Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(ssp sitticolor)
Scott Olmstead 13 July 2008 2 years ago 0
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