Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola)
Tanager Information ... Tanager Species
The Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola) is a medium-sized tanager. Adult Bay-headed Tanagers are 14 cm long and weigh 19.5 g. They are mainly green apart from a chestnut head, a blue belly, and a thin gold collar on the hind neck.
Sexes are similar, but immatures are duller with chestnut-flecked green heads.
There is considerable plumage variation between the various subspecies, and T. g.viridissima of northeast Venezuela and.Trinidad has green underparts concolorous with the rest of the body plumage.
Diet:
Fruit, usually swallowed whole, and insects.
Distribution / Habitat:
Resides in Costa Rica, Panama, South America south to Ecuador, Bolivia and southern Brazil and on Trinidad, living in forests prefering the wetter areas.
Nesting / Breeding:
Their bulky cup nest are built in trees and the normal clutch includes two brown-blotched white eggs. The female incubates the eggs for 13-14 days to hatching, with another 15-16 days before the chicks fledge.
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