Lemon-spectacled tanager facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Lemon-spectacled tanager |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cardinalidae |
| Genus: | Chlorothraupis |
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C. olivacea
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| Chlorothraupis olivacea (Cassin, 1860)
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The lemon-spectacled tanager (Chlorothraupis olivacea) is a cool bird that belongs to the Cardinalidae family. You can find this bird in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. It loves living in warm, wet places like subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and even forests that have been changed by people.
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About the Lemon-Spectacled Tanager
This bird is about 17 cm (6.7 in) long, which is roughly the length of a regular pencil. It looks a lot like another bird called the olive tanager. However, the male lemon-spectacled tanager is a bit darker green. Its belly also has less yellow on its throat compared to the olive tanager.
Female lemon-spectacled tanagers are also similar to female olive tanagers. Their bellies are yellowish-green. The easiest way to tell them apart is by looking at their eyes! Both male and female lemon-spectacled tanagers have a bright yellow ring around their eyes. This is a special feature that the olive tanager does not have.
The lemon-spectacled tanager also looks a little like the ochre-breasted tanager. But the ochre-breasted tanager has pale eyes and a more orange-yellow belly. These three types of tanagers live in different areas, so you usually won't find them all in the same place. The lemon-spectacled tanager lives in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. The ochre-breasted tanager prefers higher mountains. The olive tanager lives further south in places like southern Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.
Where They Live and What They Do
The lemon-spectacled tanager likes to hang out in the lower parts of wet forests and along the edges of forests. It usually stays below 400 m (1,300 ft) in height, and rarely goes above 800 m (2,600 ft).
These birds often travel in small groups of up to four. Sometimes, they even join bigger groups of different bird species. When they do, the lemon-spectacled tanager often seems to be the leader of the flock! They are quite noisy birds and have a loud call that sounds like a fast "treu-treu-treu-treu."
What do they eat? Mostly insects! But they also enjoy some plant parts.
Conservation Status
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) keeps an eye on how many animals are left in the world. They have listed the lemon-spectacled tanager as a "least concern" species. This means that for now, there are enough of these birds, and they are not in immediate danger of disappearing.
Even though we don't know the exact number of these birds, and their population might be slowly getting smaller, they live across a very large area. Because of their wide range, they don't meet the requirements to be listed as a more threatened species right now.
See also
In Spanish: Chlorothraupis olivacea para niños
 | Selma Burke |
 | Pauline Powell Burns |
 | Frederick J. Brown |
 | Robert Blackburn |
