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Western Spindalis
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Western Spindalis
Spindalis zena
The western spindalis (Spindalis zena) is a songbird species. It was formerly considered conspecific with the other three species of spindalis, with the common name stripe-headed tanager.
From the article Western spindalis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The species is found in southeastern Florida and the western Caribbean (Cozumel, the Cayman Islands, Cuba, the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands). It is a rare visitor of extreme southern Florida, where the subspecies S. z. zena successfully bred in 2009. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest. The subspecies zena is found in pine forest and perches on fruit trees. It is a nonmigratory bird and has a lifespan of 3.29 years.
Wikipedia: “Habitat and Ecology”
What it does
They eat insects, larvae and fruit. These birds use two different foraging techniques: they glean for fruits, meaning they pluck fruit from the source and they hover for fruits. They typically look for food at medium to high heights off the ground.
Wikipedia: “Diet and Feeding Characteristics”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 10731.