Eastern chat-tanager

The eastern chat-tanager (Calyptophilus frugivorus) is a species of bird formerly placed in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to central and southern parts of the Dominican Republic.

Eastern chat-tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Calyptophilidae
Genus: Calyptophilus
Species:
C. frugivorus
Binomial name
Calyptophilus frugivorus
(Cory, 1883)

Distribution

It formerly also occurred on the Samaná Peninsula, as well as in Haiti, but is now extirpated there. In the southwest of Hispaniola (in the Sierra de Bahoruco and southern Haiti), it is replaced by the related western chat-tanager (C. tertius), which was formerly considered conspecific.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Calyptophilus frugivorus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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