Tanagra Cabanis [1] , or blue-lumbar tanagra [1] ( lat. Tangara cabanisi ) is a species of bird from the family of tanagra (Thraupidae). Blue-green bird with a metallic tint and white belly. The bird feeds on the seeds of ficus trees. Tanagra Kabanisa is quite a social bird, it can collect up to 26 individuals. Named after Jean Louis Cabanis .
| Tanagra Kabanisa |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infrastructure : | Passerida |
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Tangara cabanisi ( Sclater , 1866 ) |
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Endangered speciesIUCN 3.1 Endangered : 22722812 |
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It lives in the misty broad-leaved forests of the Sierra Madre mountains in the southeast of the state of Chiapas (1/3 of coffee plantations are grown there) in Mexico and probably in the south-west of Guatemala , where a typical type was mined in the 60s of the XIX century instance. In the years 1972-1977. Cabanis tanager was observed in a humid tropical forest northeast of Mapastepec ( Mexico ) at an altitude of 1200-1500 m above sea level.
This species is threatened with extermination, reduced in numbers. Pastures for livestock and plantations of coffee and other crops have significantly reduced the area of this species, but large tracts of foggy forests where tanagra can live are still preserved along gorges along the borders of Mexico and Guatemala. The forest area of 10 thousand hectares where these birds were found in 1972-1977 was declared a reserve of the Chiapas Institute of Natural Sciences.
- ↑ 1 2 Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 416. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- BirdLife International (2006) Species factsheet: Tangara cabanisi. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 06/27/2006
- Howell, Steven NG & Webb, Sophie (1995): A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America . Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York. ISBN 0-19-854012-4
