Ruby-crowned Tanager Tachyphonus coronatus Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (28)
- Monotypic
Text last updated February 12, 2019
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Bulgarian | Червеноглава черна танагра |
| Catalan | tàngara de coroneta robí |
| Croatian | crvenokapa tangara |
| Dutch | Kroontangare |
| English | Ruby-crowned Tanager |
| English (AVI) | Ruby-crowned Tanager |
| English (United States) | Ruby-crowned Tanager |
| Finnish | kekäleharjatangara |
| French | Tangara couronné |
| French (Canada) | Tangara couronné |
| German | Kronentangare |
| Icelandic | Topptáni |
| Japanese | ヒノデクロフウキンチョウ |
| Norwegian | rubinissetanagar |
| Polish | żałobnik koroniasty |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | tiê-preto |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Tiê-preto |
| Russian | Красношапочная танагра |
| Serbian | Crvenokapa crna tangara |
| Slovak | sangara džungľová |
| Spanish | Tangara Coronada |
| Spanish (Argentina) | Frutero Coronado |
| Spanish (Paraguay) | Frutero coronado |
| Spanish (Spain) | Tangara coronada |
| Spanish (Uruguay) | Frutero Coronado |
| Swedish | rödkronad tangara |
| Turkish | Yakut Taçlı Tangara |
| Ukrainian | Танагра-жалібниця червоночуба |
Tachyphonus coronatus (Vieillot, 1822)
Definitions
- TACHYPHONUS
- coronatum / coronatus
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Introduction
The Ruby-crowned Tanager is an inhabitant of open woodland and forest edge from the Atlantic Coast of Brazil west to Paraguay and south to Argentina. The male Ruby-crowned Tanager is a handsome all black bird with a white interscapular patch. While displaying males raise their hidden ruby red crest. Females are reddish brown above with a gray head, white throat and cinnamon underparts. Usually seen singly or in small groups, Ruby-crowned Tanagers forage from midheights to the upper canopy, moving restlessly from tree to tree and habitually flicking their wings. The diet of Ruby-crowned Tanagers consists mainly of fruit and insects, and at times these birds can be observed following army ant swarms.
The genus Tachyphonus is derived from the Greek words takhus meaning fast, and phōne meaning sound or voice, thus translating to fast speaking (Jobling 2010). Meanwhile, the specific epithet coronatus is Latin for crowned (Jobling 2010). In Spanish the common name Tangara Coronada (Hilty 2011, de Juana et al. 2012), and in Portuguese the common name is Tiê-Preto (CBRO 2010), also called Gurundi in São Paulo or the Azulão (Sick 1993).
Subspecies
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding