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Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager
Adults are 13.5 cm long. They have a black head with white supercilium and grey throat. Their upperparts are olive color and their underparts yellow, becoming white on the belly.
Habitat:
This bird is an endemic resident breeder in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. In Paraiso Quetzal area they can be seen in different parts of forest clearings.
The sooty-capped bush tanager is a small passerine bird traditionally placed in the family Thraupidae, but perhaps closer to Arremonops in the Passerellidae. This bird is an endemic resident breeder in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama.
The sooty-capped bush tanager is found in mossy mountain forests, second growth and adjacent bushy clearings, typically from 1600 m altitude to above the timberline. The bulky cup nest is built on bank, in a dense bush, or hidden amongst epiphytes.. more
