Cone-billed Tanager

It was described on the basis of a single male specimen collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil, in 1938. No other individuals were collected or seen and some feared the bird had become extinct, while others speculated that it possibly only was an aberrant Black-and-white Tanager . In 2003, it was rediscovered by D. Buzzetti in gallery woodland and Cerrado in the Emas National Park, only to be independently rediscovered at the same locality in 2004 by B. A. Carlos.

The Cone-billed Tanager is classified as Critically Endangered (CR), facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

Cone-billed Tanager (Conothraupis mesoleuca) (Berlioz, 1939) summary taxon grid map Wikipedia NatureServe Google: Web|Scholar ITIS Birdlife Google|Flickr Xeno-Canto - CRITICALLY ENDANGERED Order: Passeriformes Family: Thraupidae English: Cone-billed Tanager Scientific: Conothraupis mesoleuca Protonym: Rhynchothraupis mesoleuca Avibase ID: 16460BF46D228838 Taxomic Serial Number: More

The Cone-billed Tanager (Conothraupis mesoleuca) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is endemic to Brazil. It was described on the basis of a single male specimen collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil, in 1938. No other individuals were collected or seen and some feared the bird had become extinct, while others speculated that it possibly only was an aberrant Black-and-white Tanager (unlikely, as the Black-and-white Tanager only occurs far from the region where the Cone-billed was collected). More

Who cares if the cone-billed tanager is alive, or if it, like tens of billions of organisms since life first arose, is now extinct? What does one tanager, more or less, matter when weighed against more than 9,000 living species of birds? You're asking the wrong person. More

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name of Cone-billed Tanager, but remarkably it was another 66 years before the species was seen anywhere again. In October 2004, Brazilian ornithologist Dante Buzzetti was visiting Emas National Park to follow up a possible sighting of the species in 2003 by bird guide Bráulio A Carlos. Buzzetti heard a call at dawn he did not recognize. Playing back the calls attracted a medium brown bird he was unable to identify. More

Although the rediscovery of the Cone-billed Tanager is great news for Brazil More

Cone-billed Tanager Conothraupis mesoleuca = Described by: Berlioz (1939) Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors Photographs No photographs are available for this species Range Sw. Brazil; Wc. Mato Grosso, Cuyaba along the upper Rio Juruena. More

Cone-billed Tanager, Brazil, Emas NP 24/12/07 © alan lewis with help from Marcelo Padua Cone-billed Tanager - Cone-billed Tanager, Goiás state, Brazil, Emas National Park Dec 2008 © William Price web site Send this as a postcard Cone-billed Tanager - Cone-billed Tanager, Goiás state, Brazil, Emas National Park Dec 2008 © William Price web site Cone-billed Tanager More

museum specimen), in life the bill of Cone-billed Tanager was strikingly pale, rather than black. Since 2004, Cone-billed Tanagers have been found again at Emas National Park. In late 2005, Andre De Luca, a volunteer ornithologist for SAVE Brasil (BirdLife in Brazil), visited the park and found at least three birds in gallery forest. More

Cone-billed Tanager (Conothraupis mesoleuca) by Andre C. De Luca. Emas National Park, Goias state, Brazil, ? XC5871 Cone-billed Tanager (Conothraupis mesoleuca) by Andre C. De Luca from Brazil XC5871 :: Cone-billed Tanager (Conothraupis mesoleuca) = Recording data Recordist Andre C. More