Golden-hooded Tanager
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The Golden-hooded Tanager (Tangara larvata) is a medium-sized passerine bird, averaging 13 cm in length and weighing about 19 g.
The adult male has a golden head with a black eyemask edged with violet blue above and below. The upperparts of the body are black apart from the turquoise shoulders, rump and edgings of the wings and tail. The flanks are blue and the central belly is white.
Females have a greenish tinge to the head, sometimes with black speckling on the crown, and more extensively white underparts. Immatures are duller, with a green head, dark grey upperparts, off-white underparts, and little blue in the plumage.
Distribution:
Southern Mexico south to western Ecuador. It resides from sea level to 1500 m altitude in the canopy of dense forests and semi-open areas like clearings, second growth and well-vegetated gardens.
Golden-hooded Tanagers occur in pairs, family groups, or as part of a mixed-species feeding flock.
Breeding:
The cup nest is built in a tree fork or in a bunch of green bananas, and the normal clutch is two brown-blotched white eggs. This species is often double-brooded, and the young birds from the first clutch assist with feeding the second brood of chicks.
Diet:
They eat small fruit, usually swallowed whole, and insects.
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