| Hooded Tanager (Nemosia pileata) |
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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. |
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| 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. There is an illustration in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 1, Plate 11. | ||||
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