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White-shouldered Tanager
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White-shouldered Tanager

Loriotus luctuosus
BirdNET IDBN06879
Taxon groupAves
iNat observations1,576
Image sourceiNaturalist
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Description wikipedia

The white-shouldered tanager (Loriotus luctuosus) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder from Honduras to Panama, South America south to Ecuador and southern Brazil, and on Trinidad. It occurs in forests and cocoa plantations. The bulky cup nest is built in low vegetation, and the female lays three brown-blotched cream eggs. White-shouldered tanagers are 14 cm long and weigh 14 g. They are long-tailed and with a mostly black stout pointed bill. The adult male is glossy black, apart from white underwing coverts and a conspicuous white shoulder patch. The shoulder patch is the most obvious difference from the similar but larger white-lined tanager, in which the smaller white area is rarely visible except in flight. Females and immatures have olive upperparts, yellow underparts and a grey head and neck. These are restless birds which eat mainly insects, including stick insects, but will occasionally take fruit. They often associate with other insectivorous birds in wandering feeding flocks. The white-shouldered tanager's song is a fast repetitive tchirrup.

Translated Descriptions (5)

es wikipedia
La tangara luctuosa​ (Loriotus luctuosus), también denominado frutero negro (en Venezuela), parlotero aliblanco (en Colombia), tángara caponiblanca (en Costa Rica), tángara ribetiblanca (en Nicaragua), tangara hombriblanca (en Ecuador, Panamá y Colombia) o tangara de hombro blanco (en Perú),​ es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Thraupidae perteneciente al género Loriotus, antes situada en Tachyphonus.​ Es nativa de Centro y Sudamérica.
fr wikipedia
Le Tangara à épaulettes blanches (Loriotus luctuosus) est une espèce de passereaux appartenant à la famille des Thraupidae.
nl wikipedia
De witschoudertangare (Loriotus luctuosus synoniem: Tachyphonus luctuosus) is een zangvogel uit de familie Thraupidae (Tangaren).
ru wikipedia
Белоплечая украшенная танагра (лат. Tachyphonus luctuosus) — вид птиц из семейства танагровых отряда воробьинообразных.
sv wikipedia
Vitskuldrad tangara (Loriotus luctuosus) är en fågel i familjen tangaror inom ordningen tättingar. Den förekommer från Honduras i Centralamerika söderut genom Sydamerika till Bolivia. Fågeln tros minska i antal, men beståndet anses vara livskraftigt.

Common Names (29 locales)

bg Белокрила черна танагра
ca tàngara d'espatlles blanques
cs tangara běloramenná
da Hvidskuldret Sorttangar
de Weißschulter-Haubentangare
en White-shouldered Tanager
es Tangara Luctuosa
es_CR Tangara Caponiblanca
es_EC Tangara Hombriblanca
es_ES Tangara luctuosa
es_MX Tangara Luctuosa
es_PA Tangara Hombriblanca
fi pilkkasiipitangara
fr Tangara à épaulettes blanches
hr bjeloramena tangara
it Tangara spallebianche
ja モンツキクロフウキンチョウ
nl Witschoudertangare
no sørgetanagar
pl lanio epoletowy
pt tem-tem-de-dragona-branca
pt_PT Tem-tem-d'ombros-brancos
ru Белоплечая танагра
sk sangara bieloplecá
sr Belokrila crna tangara
sv vitskuldrad tangara
tr Ak Omuzlu Tangara
uk Танагра-жалібниця білоплеча
zh-CN 白肩黑唐纳雀

External Identifiers

iNaturalist#1289364
eBirdwhstan1
Macaulay Librarywhstan1
Xeno-CantoLoriotus luctuosus