Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Ramphocelus
Species: R. carbo
Identification
The Silver-beaked Tanager, Ramphocelus carbo, is a medium-sized passerine bird. It is 18 cm long and weigh 25 g. Adult males are velvety crimson black with a deep crimson throat and breast. The upper mandible of the bill is black, but the enlarged lower mandible is bright silver in appearance. The bill is pointed upwards in display. The female is much duller, with brownish upperparts, reddish brown underparts and a black bill.
There is considerable plumage variation between the various subspecies, differing mainly in the degree of contrast between the upperparts and the throat and breast.
Habital
This tanager is a resident breeder in South America from Colombia and Venezuela south to Paraguay and central Brazil, and on Trinidad. It occurs in light woodland and cultivation. The bulky cup nest is usually built in a bush, and the normal clutch is two green-blue eggs blotched with black-brown. The female incubates the eggs for 11-12 days to hatching, with about the same time again before the chicks fledge.
It occurs in light woodland and cultivation. The bulky cup nest is usually built in a bush, and the normal clutch is two green-blue eggs blotched with black-brown. The female incubates the eggs for 11-12 days to hatching, with about the same time again before the chicks fledge.