#Crested ant tanager

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[2742/11080] Crested ant tanager - Habia cristata

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Emberizoidea Family: Cardinalidae (cardinal-grosbeaks)

Photo credit: Bobby Wilcox via Macaulay Library

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Crested Ant Tanager

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Crested Ant Tanager (Habia cristata) © Christoph Moning

It hatches from bright, dense, dull, obvious, red, similar, small, uncommon, unmistakable, and western eggs.

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Crested Ant-Tanager (Habia cristata), family Cardinalidae, endemic to Colombia

Originally categorized as a tanager in the family Thraupidae, it is now placed in the Cardinal family.

photograph by Gary Leavens https://www.instagram.com/leavensgary/

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Driophlox Scott et al., 2024 (new genus)

(An individual of Driophlox gutturalis, photographed by Christoph Moning, under CC BY 4.0)

Meaning of name: Driophlox = thicket flame [in Greek]

Species included: D. gutturalis (sooty ant tanager, type species, previously in Habia), D. atrimaxillaris (black-cheeked ant tanager, previously in Habia), D. cristata (crested ant tanager, previously in Habia), and D. fuscicauda (red-throated ant tanager, previously in Habia)

Age: Holocene (Meghalayan), extant

Where found: Forest undergrowth in Middle and South America

Notes: The name "ant tanager" is used for several species of tropical songbirds closely related to cardinals. Despite often being brightly colored, they are generally secretive. They feed primarily on insects and some fruits, and as their common name suggests, are known to occasionally follow swarms of army ants to capture fleeing arthropods.

Current taxonomic authorities classify all of the ant tanagers in the genus Habia. However, recent genetic studies have found that the red-crowned ant tanager (Habia rubica) is more closely related to the genus Chlorothraupis than to other ant tanagers. Given that H. rubica is the type species of Habia, a new genus is needed for the other ant tanagers, so the authors of a new paper coin the name Driophlox for this purpose.

Reference: Scott, B.F., R.T. Chesser, P. Unitt, and K.J. Burns. 2024. Driophlox, a new genus of cardinalid (Aves: Passeriformes: Cardinalidae). Zootaxa 5406: 497–500. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.3.11

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Happy Birdsday! Crested ant-tanager.

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Crested Ant-Tanager (Habia cristata)

© Timothy Forrester

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October 30, 2019 - Tawny-crested Tanager (Tachyphonus delatrii)

These tanagers are found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. They eat insects, including ants, beetles, and grasshoppers, as well as fruit, foraging acrobatically, sometimes while hanging upside down. Though their breeding behavior is not known in detail, they build bulky cup nests with partial roofs from green moss, rootlets, and fungi.

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