Hooded Tanager (Nemosia pileata)
Male Hooded Tanager, Palmarí, Amazonas, Brazil, September 2003 - click for larger image Palmarí, Amazonas, Brazil
September 2003

The Hooded Tanager is distributed from the Caribbean coast of Colombia to northern Argentina though it is missing from the north-western part of the Amazon Basin. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.

It is found in light woodland, gallery forest and plantations while in the Amazon Basin it is seen in várzea woodland and forest borders.
It has yellow legs and a yellow iris. The male's head and sides of the neck are black giving the hooded appearance while the lores are white. Remaining upperparts are blue-grey while underparts are white.

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