BLUE-NAPED CHLOROPHONIA Chlorophonia cyanea
Breathtakingly beautiful, the bright colouration of the Blue-naped Chlorophonia provides surprising camouflage in the tree canopy. Recent DNA evidence suggests that they are actually finches, though their stubby bills and wide gapes are adapted for plucking and swallowing small fruits. Their diet was in part the reason that the Chlorophonias and their allies were formerly placed with the tanagers Thraupidae.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE2126PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu May 2008).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE2127PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE2128PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
VIDEO - (FPAVE2129VI) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith August 2006).
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Chlorophonia cyanea
1 (FPAVE2130RE) song recorded Tapyta, Departamento Caaguazú (Myriam Velázquez August 2001).
2 (FPAVE2131RE) song recorded Itabó Itaipú, Departamento Alto Paraná (Myriam Velázquez May 2000).
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