| BirdNET ID | BN05110 |
| Taxon group | Aves |
| Commonness | Moderately common (46/100) How often it is observed on iNaturalist compared with other Aves, not how abundant it is |
| Image source | iNaturalist |
| Avicommons | Photo by Salvador Poot Villanueva (cc-by-nc) |
The black-throated shrike-tanager (Lanio aurantius) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The black-throated shrike-tanager is 19 to 20 cm (7.5 to 7.9 in) long. It has a shrike-like "toothed" bill with a hooked end. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a bright yellow body with a faint brownish ochre wash on the breast. Their head, nape, throat, wings, and tail are black, with white tips on the lesser wing coverts. Adult females have a gray head with an olive tinge on the crown. Their upperparts, wings, and tail are tawny-brown with a strong rufescent tinge on the rump and tail. Their throat is gray, their breast and belly yellow, and their undertail coverts ochre. Their breast, sides, and flanks have an olive wash. Both sexes have a dark brown iris and blackish legs. Males have a black bill; females' are blackish. The black-throated shrike-tanager is found on the Gulf/Caribbean slope from central Veracruz in southeastern Mexico east through Tabasco and Chiapas including the base of the Yucatán Peninsula and continuing east across northern Guatemala, south through western Belize and eastern Guatemala, and east into northwestern Honduras to Atlántida Department. It inhabits humid evergreen and semi-deciduous forest. Sources differ slightly on its upper elevational limit, stating it as 1,200 m (3,900 ft) and 1,250 m (4,100 ft).
| iNaturalist | #10568 |
| eBird | btstan1 |
| Macaulay Library | btstan1 |
| Xeno-Canto | Lanio aurantius |
| observation.org | #78705 |
| GBIF | 2488291 |
| NCBI | 460207 |
| Avibase | 1D35BB7C643DE4F2 |
| BirdLife | 22722355 |
| Wikidata | Q1301800 |