Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
Genus
Tangara
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Turquoise Tanager Tangara mexicana

Jennifer Hart and Kevin J. Burns
Version: 1.0 — Published January 7, 2011

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2009. Species factsheet: Turquoise Tanager Tangara mexicana. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 9 February 2010.

Burns, K. J., and K. Naoki. 2004. Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of Neotropical tanagers in the genus Tangara. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 839-54.

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Haverschmidt, F. 1968. Birds of Surinam. Oliver and Boyd, London.

Hellmayr, C. E. 1936. Catalogue of birds of the Americas. Part IX. Field Museum of Natural History Zoological Series volume 13, part 9. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois.

Hilty, S. L., Brown, W. L., 1986. A guide to birds of Colombia. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Hilty, S. L. 2003. Birds of Venezuela. Second edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Ingels, J. 1974. The behavior and nesting of the turquoise tanager Tangara mexicana. Avicultural Magazine 80: 168-171.


Isler, M. L., and P. R. Isler. 1999. The tanagers: natural history, distribution, and identification. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1970. A guide to the birds of South America. Livingston Publishing Company, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

Munn, C. A. 1985. Permanent canopy and understory flocks in Amazonia: species composition and population density. Pages 683-712 in P. A. Buckley, M. S. Foster, E. S. Morton, R. S. Ridgely, and F. G. Buckley (editors), Neotropical Ornithology. Ornithological Monographs number 36. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.

Parker, T. A., III, D. F. Stotz, and J. W. Fitzpatrick. 1996. Ecological and distributional databases. Pages 113-436 in D. F. Stotz, J. W. Fitzpatrick, T. A. Parker III, and D. K. Moskovits, Neotropical birds: ecology and conservation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.


Restall, R., C. Rodner, and M. Lentino. 2007. Birds of northern South America: an identification guide. Volume 1. Species accounts. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.


Ridgely, R. S., and P. J. Greenfield. 2001. The birds of Ecuador: field guide. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

Ridgely, R. S., and G. Tudor. 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America. The passerines. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, D. F. Lane, J. P. O’Neill, and T. A. Parker III. 2007. Birds of Peru. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Sedano R. E, and K. J. Burns. 2010. Are the Northern Andes a species pump for Neotropical birds? Phylogenetics and biogeography of a clade of Neotropical tanagers (Aves: Thraupini). Journal of Biogeography 37: 325-343.


Sick, H. 1993. Birds in Brazil. A natural history. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Snow, B. K., and D. W. Snow. 1971. The feeding ecology of tanagers and honeycreepers in Trinidad. Auk 88: 291-322.

Snow, D. W., and C. T. Collins. 1962. Social breeding behavior of the Mexican Tanager. Condor 64: 161.


Sproule, M. 2006. Notes on the care and breeding of the turquoise tanager Tangara mexicana. Avicultural Magazine 112: 161-168.

Storer, R. W. 1970. Subfamily Thraupinae, Tanagers. Pages 246-408 in R. A. Paynter, Jr., and R. W. Storer (editors), Check-list of birds of the world. Volume XIII. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Tucker, B. E. 2002. A description of vocalizations from a group of captive tanagers. Unpublished M.S. thesis. State University of New York, Syracuse, New York.

Recommended Citation

Hart, J. and K. J. Burns (2011). Turquoise Tanager (Tangara mexicana), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.turtan1.01