Brazilian tanager

Brazilian tanager
Male
Female in Registro, São Paulo, Brazil
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Ramphocelus
Species: R. bresilius
Binomial name
Ramphocelus bresilius
(Linnaeus, 1766)

The Brazilian tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is endemic to Brazil, occurring in the coastal region from Paraíba and southwards to Santa Catarina. Its natural habitats are mostly Atlantic coast restingas, including also subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

A frugivorous bird, it's easily found in its natural biome wherever there's food enough available, tending to behave aggressively towards other species of birds when disputing for food. Can be seem in cities, as in the vicinity of the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, at the jogging track named for Cláudio Coutinho, which skirts the park at the mountain's base.

Nests by building a cup-shaped nest hidden amongst foliage, where it lays two to three greenish-blue, black-spotted eggs.

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References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Ramphocelus bresilius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.