Tanagers (Thraupidae)
White-sided Flowerpiercer (Diglossa albilatera) - HBW 16, p. 269
French: Percefleur à flancs blancs
German: Schieferhakenschnabel
Spanish: Pinchaflor Flanquiblanco
Other common names: White-sided Flowerpecker
Taxonomy: Diglossa albi-latera Lafresnaye, 1843, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia.
Genus has sometimes been placed in Coerebidae or Parulidae or even, because of an apparent close relationship to Acanthidops, in Emberizidae. Molecular phylogenies indicate that it is most closely related to Xenodacnis and to Acanthidops, Haplospiza and Catamenia (the last three genera currently placed in Emberizidae), and that all clearly belong in present family. Members of this clade may also be closely related to the Oreomanes–Conirostrum clade. Present species is closely allied to D. venezuelensis. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- federalis Hellmayr, 1922 - coastal cordillera of N Venezuela (from Aragua E to Distrito Federal and Vargas, probably also adjacent Miranda).
- albilatera Lafresnaye, 1843 - Sierra de Perijá (Colombia–Venezuela border), Andes of Venezuela (from Lara S to Táchira), and Colombia in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and all three ranges of Andes S to S Ecuador (except extreme SW) and probably to N Peru (Cajamarca).
- schistacea Chapman, 1925 - extreme SW Ecuador and NW Peru W of R Marañón.
- affinis J. T. Zimmer, 1942 - Peru from R Utcubamba watershed in Amazonas (E of R Marañón) and on W slope in Ayacucho S to NW Cuzco.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male feeding at a hummingbird feeder Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp albilatera)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 8 years ago 32 sec 4.7 -
A male flying between a branch and a feeder Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp albilatera)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 7 years ago 30 sec 4.5 -
A male flying between a branch and a feeder in the rain Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp albilatera)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 7 years ago 22 sec 4.1 -
A female at a feeder and then foraging through a flowering shrub Locality Bellavista Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp albilatera)
Greg Baker 23 September 2004 10 weeks ago 28 sec 4 -
A male leaving and returning to the same branch Locality Tandayapa Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp albilatera)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 7 years ago 28 sec 4 -
A male feeding among flowers and calling once. Locality El Dorado Reserve, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena Department, Colombia (ssp albilatera)
Keith Blomerley 15 November 2012 18 weeks ago 21 sec 3.8
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Male Flowerpiercing
Locality Rogitama Reserve, Arcabuco, Boyacá Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 3 December 2011 1 year ago 4.4 -
Male perched in flowery bush in side-view
Locality El Ávila National Park, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (ssp federalis)
Mikko Pyhälä 6 July 2008 4 years ago 4.4 -
Perched female.
Locality El Dorado Reserve, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena Department, Colombia
Miriam Bauman 10 November 2010 2 years ago 4.4 -
Perched male.
Locality Rogitama Reserve, Arcabuco, Boyacá Department, Colombia
Miriam Bauman 14 November 2010 2 years ago 4.3 -
male on a branch
Locality Cocora Valley, Quindio Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 27 December 2010 2 years ago 4 -
A perched adult.
Locality El Ávila National Park, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
philgunson 6 July 2008 4 years ago 3.6
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typical song (rattle) of male Locality Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(ssp albilatera)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 9 December 2009 3 years ago 3
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