Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Thick-billed Euphonia (Euphonia laniirostris) - HBW 16, p. 289
French: Organiste à bec épais
German: Dickschnabelorganist
Spanish: Eufonia Piquigruesa
Other common names: Black-tailed Euphonia (melanura)
Taxonomy: E.[uphonia] laniirostris d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837, Yuracares, Bolivia.
Recent molecular-genetic analysis indicates that genus belongs in family Fringillidae. Race zopholega doubtfully distinct from nominate. Five subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- crassirostris P. L. Sclater, 1857 - Pacific slope of Costa Rica (from Guanacaste) S to Panama (both slopes from Coclé E through Darién) and N Colombia (S on Pacific coast to C Chocó, throughout Cauca Valley and Magdalena Valley; also in Arauca and Boyacá), and across N & W Venezuela (E to W Sucre, and S in llanos almost to R Orinoco).
- hypoxantha Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884 - Pacific coast of Ecuador S to NW Peru (S Cajamarca).
- melanura P. L. Sclater, 1851 - E Colombia (from Meta and Vichada) S through E Ecuador and E Peru (S to San Martín and N Ucayali), and C Brazil (Acre and generally E across Amazon Basin S of R Amazon to W Pará).
- crassirostris P. L. Sclater, 1857 - Pacific slope of Costa Rica (from Guanacaste) S to Panama (both slopes from Coclé E through Darién) and N Colombia (S on Pacific coast to C Chocó, throughout Cauca Valley and Magdalena Valley; also in Arauca and Boyacá), and across N & W Venezuela (E to W Sucre, and S in llanos almost to R Orinoco).
- hypoxantha Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884 - Pacific coast of Ecuador S to NW Peru (S Cajamarca).
- melanura P. L. Sclater, 1851 - E Colombia (from Meta and Vichada) S through E Ecuador and E Peru (S to San Martín and N Ucayali), and C Brazil (Acre and generally E across Amazon Basin S of R Amazon to W Pará).
- zopholega (Oberholser, 1918) - EC Peru (Junín and Cuzco).
- laniirostris d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 - SE Peru and N Bolivia E to C Brazil (SE Amazonas and C Mato Grosso).
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A male calling, a female eating a banana and then the male adopting aggressive posture and chasing off the female Locality Canopy Lodge, El Valle de Antón, Coclé Province, Panama (ssp crassirostris)
Dave Jackson 11 April 2007 5 years ago 27 sec 4.6 -
A male eating banana at a feeder Locality Mirador Rio Blanco, Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp melanura)
Josep del Hoyo 6 September 2007 5 years ago 20 sec 4.6 -
An adult male feeding on a banana Locality Hotel Pueblo, Aguas Calientes, Cusco Department, Peru (ssp zopholega)
Josep del Hoyo 27 July 2005 7 years ago 25 sec 4.5 -
Bird filmed close to the cabins of Finca Lerida Locality Boquete, Chiriquí Province, Panama
Thore Noernberg 10 November 2012 27 weeks ago 22 sec 4.5 -
A male at a feeder Locality Canopy Lodge, El Valle de Antón, Coclé Province, Panama
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2010 2 years ago 21 sec 4.4 -
A male and a female carrying material for the nest Locality Girardot, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
Pere Sugranyes 25 October 2012 24 weeks ago 42 sec 4.4
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Beautiful female bird pereched on a wire. Close up.
Locality Pereira, Risaralda Department, Colombia
Daniel Avendaño 2 February 2013 5 weeks ago 4.3 -
picture taken close to the hotel of Finca Lerida
Locality Boquete, Chiriquí Province, Panama (ssp crassirostris)
Thore Noernberg 9 November 2012 26 weeks ago 4.3 -
On a branch
Locality Alambi Cloud Forest Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp hypoxantha)
Guy Poisson 24 October 2011 1 year ago 4.3 -
A male singing perched on a branch
Locality Finca La Pomarrosa, Barlovento, Miranda State, Venezuela (ssp crassirostris)
Eduardo López 13 July 2008 4 years ago 4.1 -
Adult female eating berries from a tree
Locality Alambi Cloud Forest Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Rafael Merchante 12 November 2010 4 weeks ago 4 -
Little bird displaying its wing while it's preening. It's a female.
Locality Pereira, Risaralda Department, Colombia
Daniel Avendaño 2 February 2013 5 weeks ago 3.8
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Calls from a female. Locality Chapada dos Guimaraes, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
Bradley Davis 28 October 2008 3 years ago 2
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