Magpie Tanager - Cissopis leverianus

Magpie Tanager Cissopis leverianus

Brazil

The Magpie Tanager is large and unmistakable with its long black and white tail, its yellow iris and its blue-black hood.

It is found in forest borders and secondary growth or clearings around the Amazon Basin and in south-east Brazil. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.

These photos are of the subspecies Cissopis leverianus major which is from south-east Brazil and is larger and has a blacker back than the nominate subspecies found further north.

The Magpie Tanager is conspicuous, noisy and behaves a bit like a jay.

Photo 3 shows a juvenile beside an adult. Note the dark eye and the reduced amount of white on the wing-coverts.

Adult and juvenile Magpie Tanager, Parque de Zizo, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2006 - click for larger image

Magpie Tanager, Santuaria do Caraca, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 2022 - click for larger image

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