Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Moss-backed Tanager (Bangsia edwardsi) - HBW 16, p. 198
French: Tangara d’Edwards
German: Edwardstangare
Spanish: Tangara de Edwards
Taxonomy: Buthraupis edwardsi Elliot, 1865, Colombia.
In the past, genus sometimes subsumed in Buthraupis, but this treatment not supported by recent molecular-genetic studies, which place it in a separate clade, with Wetmorethraupis as sister to it; in addition, members of present genus are smaller in size and shorter-tailed than Buthraupis, relatively uniform in plumage, behaviourally less social and occur mostly at lower elevations. Monotypic.
Distribution: W slope of W Andes in SW Colombia (from Dagua Valley, in Valle del Cauca) S to NW Ecuador (Esmeraldas and Pichincha).
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The video was taken with my digital camera Lumix Locality Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve, La Delicia, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
AndresVasquez 2 years ago 39 sec 3.7 -
A short video of a adult bird that was foraging in the subcanopy of patchy forest Locality Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve, La Delicia, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
AndresVasquez 6 June 2010 2 years ago 10 sec 2.5 -
A bird on top of a young palm Locality Milpe, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 8 years ago 14 sec 2.3
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perched
Locality Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 26 August 2009 3 years ago 4 -
Adult bird
Locality Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve, La Delicia, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Rafael Merchante 17 November 2010 9 weeks ago 3.9
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call Locality Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 9 August 2009 3 years ago 3
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