Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
Genus
Tachyphonus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Flame-crested Tanager Tachyphonus cristatus

Jessica Looney, Kevin J. Burns, and Thomas S. Schulenberg
Version: 1.0 — Published December 3, 2010

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Vocalizations

In Brazil, Sick (1985) described a complex series of notes, tseh tseh tesh tsititit, that may represent the song of the Flame-crested Tanager. Calls include a thin, high seeep note while foraging (Hilty and Brown 1986, Hilty 2003), which  may be the same vocalization described by Lane (in Schulenberg et al. 2007) as "a high 'tswee' "; and "a dull 'unk' " (Lane, in Schulenberg et al. 2007).

Nonvocal Sounds

None reported.

Recommended Citation

Looney, J., K. J. Burns, and T. S. Schulenberg (2010). Flame-crested Tanager (Tachyphonus cristatus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.flctan1.01
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