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Golden-hooded Tanager

Stilpnia larvata

Range & Recent Observations

Golden-hooded Tanageris a year-round resident and doesn't follow a migration flyway. See the Range tab for where it lives.

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About the Golden-hooded Tanager

The golden-hooded tanager (Stilpnia larvata) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder from southern Mexico south to western Ecuador. Adult golden-hooded tanagers are 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weigh 19 g (0.67 oz). 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.

Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Scientific name
Stilpnia larvata
Family
Tanagers and Allies
Order
Passeriformes

Similar species

Other members of the tanagers and allies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.

  • Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi
  • Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
  • Black-faced Grassquit Melanospiza bicolor
  • Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
  • Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius
  • Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
  • Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
  • Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
  • Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
  • Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco
  • Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa baritula
  • Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis

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