Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Rufous-winged Tanager (Tangara lavinia) - HBW 16, p. 227
French: Calliste à ailes rousses
German: Goldflügeltangare
Spanish: Tangara Alirrufa
Other common names: Lavinia’s Tanager
Taxonomy: Calliste Lavinia Cassin, 1858, Isthmus of Darién, Panama.
Forms a superspecies with T. gyrola; replaces latter in lowlands of wet Chocó–Pacific region. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- cara (Bangs, 1905) - extreme E Guatemala (Puerto Barrios), Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica S to Panama (to San Blas).
- dalmasi (Hellmayr, 1910) - locally on Pacific slope of Panama (Chiriquí and Veraguas E to E Panamá).
- lavinia (Cassin, 1858) - extreme E Panama (E Darién) and S along Pacific slope of Colombia (from N Chocó), including Gorgona I, to W Ecuador (Pichincha).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A young male feeding on berries. Locality Costa Rica (ssp cara)
Max Roth 25 February 2007 2 years ago 44 sec 3.7 -
A bird in dense cover Locality Río Silanche Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp lavinia)
Juan Sanabria 1 April 2006 2 years ago 13 sec 2.5
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perched, showing underside colours
Locality Cerro Azul, Chagres National Park, Panama (ssp cara)
ben lascelles 29 June 2008 2 years ago 3.3
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One ind at the top of a tree in Ecolodge El Almejal, Bahia Solano, Choco, Colombia. Locality Colombia
(ssp lavinia)
Diego Calderon - COLOMBIA... 15 January 2008 2 years ago 4
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