Tawny-crowned Greenlet

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Fuchsscheitelvireo

The Fuchsscheitelvireo ( Hylophilus ochraceiceps ), also called Brown-headed Hylophilus, is a common representative of the songbirds of the family of Vireos True.

Features

The small, up to eleven inches large bird has a dark brown Rücken-/Kopfgefieder and the throat is gray. The belly is light brown plumage. The sharp beak is black and the legs are gray. The forehead and crown are yellowish to brown. There is no outward differences in plumage between males and females.

Way of life

In small groups, sociable birds roam the woods. There they find on leaves of shrubs and small trees insects and other invertebrates, of which they feed.

Reproduction

The cup-shaped nest in which the female lays two white eggs provided with brown splashes, is attached at the top of a tree fork. The breeding period of the species is 14 days. The nestling period of the boys, which are supplied by both parent birds, approximately two weeks.

Dissemination

The species occurs in forests and rain forests of southern Mexico through Central and South America until after Bolivia and Brazil.

Endangering

The IUCN classified the species due to their large distribution area as (Least Concern ) is a low risk.

Subspecies

It describes three subspecies, which differ mainly in their coloring, size and in their habitat requirements. Your areas of distribution extends from southern Mexico to the Amazon rainforest. The following subspecies are distinguished, according to the IOC World Bird List:

  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps ochraceiceps Sclater, PL, 1860 The nominate comes from southern Mexico before about Belize and northern Guatemala.
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps pallidipectus ( Ridgway, 1903) This subspecies is present from the south through Guatemala Honduras to north- western Panama.
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps pacificus Parkes, 1991 This subspecies is in southeastern Costa Rica and Panama at home.
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps nelsoni ( Todd, 1929) is to be found only in eastern Panama.
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps bulunensis Hartert, 1902 Its distribution area covers the extreme east of Panama in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps ferrugineifrons Sclater, PL, 1862 in southeastern Colombia, the South of Venezuela, in the west central Guyana, northwest of Brazil, Ecuador and Peru home.
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps viridior ( Todd, 1929) This subspecies is found in southern Peru and northern Bolivia
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps luteifrons Sclater, PL, 1881 This subspecies may in eastern Venezuela, which are observed Guyana and northern Brazil.
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps lutescens ( Snethlage, E, 1914) This subspecies is native to the north-central Brazil to the south of the Amazon.
  • Hylophilus ochraceiceps rubrifrons Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1867 This subspecies comes from the northeast of Brazil prior to the southern Amazon.

Swell

  • Philip Whitfield (ed.): The great empire of the animals. Planet Media AG, train 1992, ISBN 3-8247-8614-1, pp. 380, 381, translation from English
  • Wilhelm Owner: Encyclopedia of Animals. Volume 2, p 379, ISBN 3-89350-361-7, worldview, Hamburg 1991
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