Azure-rumped Tanager

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Tangara
Species:	T. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming Extinct because it is either few in numbers or threatened by changing environmental or predation The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. The tanagers are a family, Thraupidae, of birds in the order Passeriformes. Tangara is a large Genus of Birds of the Tanager family Many have restricted ranges cabanisi

Binomial name

Tangara cabanisi
(Sclater, 1866)

The Azure-rumped Tanager, Tangara cabanisi, is mostly sky blue, though it has a purplish azure crown. Philip Lutley Sclater ( November 4, 1829 - June 27, 1913) was an English Lawyer and Zoologist. It also appears to be wearing a black mask around its lores. The bill is gray with a dark tip. It is a mottled green just above its half-black, half-blue wings. This bird makes a wi sseeu song and a sii call.

This bird lives in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala in humid broadleaf evergreen forests that grow around 1000-2000 meters. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Guatemala (República de Guatemala) is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west the Pacific Ocean to the southwest It enjoys the maturing syconia of Ficus (fig) trees and even migrates small distances to get them. An accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, epigynous fruit, syconium or pseudocarp is a Fruit where the fleshy Ficus is a Genus of about 850 Species of woody Trees Shrubs Vines Epiphytes and hemi-epiphytes in the family It eats them in the canopy. This bird breeds from mid-April to mid-June in Ficus trees. This bird is highly social and can gather in flocks of up to 26 members.

This magnificent bird is endangered because of deforestation to clear the way for coffee plantations. An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming Extinct because it is either few in numbers or threatened by changing environmental or predation Deforestation is the conversion of Forested areas to non-forest land for use such as Arable land, Pasture, urban use logged area or wasteland It is estimated that there are 2500-10000 birds left, but that number is thought to be decreasing.

This bird was named after Jean Cabanis. Jean Louis Cabanis ( March 8, 1816 &mdash February 20, 1906) was a German Ornithologist.

Resources

BirdLife International (2006) Species factsheet: Tangara cabanisi. BirdLife International (formerly known as the International Council for Bird Preservation, not to be confused with Birds International) is the international conservation Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 27/6/2006
Howell, Steven N. G. & Webb, Sophie (1995): A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York. ISBN 0-19-854012-4

External links

BirdLife Species Factsheet.

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