Endangered
Cone-billed Tanager
Conothraupis mesoleuca
Cone-billed Tanager is a perching bird in the family Thraupidae (order Passeriformes) — Conothraupis mesoleuca, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males are mostly black with a greenish gloss. Adult females are mostly gray-brown. Their breast is pale olive-brown and the center of their lower breast and their belly are buffy white.
The cone-billed tanager is about 12 to 14 cm (4.7 to 5.5 in) long. One male weighed 15 g (0.53 oz) and one female 15.5 g (0.55 oz).
Range and habitat
As of 2017, the cone-billed tanager was known from Goiás in Emas National Park, several municipalities in the basin of the upper Juruena River in Mato Grosso, at Itiquira in southeastern Mato Grosso, and at Serra do Cachimbo in southern Pará. The Juruena River area appears to hold the majority of the species' total population. Its habitat differs somewhat between the two main populations, though they both are found in river-related landscapes.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The cone-billed tanager is apparently monogamous and territorial but nothing else is known about its breeding biology.
In crisis
Cone-billed Tanager is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Cone-billed Tanager, Wikidata item Q998530. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
