Brazilian endemic/near-endemic Tangara tanagers in zoos?

[condor]

Tanagers of the genus Tangara are among the most remarkably colored birds and some of the most stunning are from Brazil.
Does someone know if any of the species that are entirely or mostly restricted to Brazil are kept in zoos outside South America today?? These:

Green-headed tanager, Tangara seledon
Seven-colored tanager, Tangara fastuosa
Red-necked tanager, Tangara cyanocephala
Brassy-breasted tanager, Tangara desmaresti
Gilt-edged tanager, Tangara cyanoventris
Black-backed tanager, Tangara peruviana
Chestnut-backed tanager, Tangara preciosa
White-bellied tanager, Tangara (mexicana) brasiliensis*
Silvery-breasted tanager, Tangara (velia) cyanomelas

*Zootierliste is generally excellent, but don't trust it in this case. Their 4 photos are T. m. mexicana and I've personally seen the ones at the four German zoos, the one in the Netherlands and the one in Switzerland. They're all T. m. mexicana or possibly a mix (not involving T. m. brasiliensis), which is unsurprising because most South American passerines are exported out of the Guianas. I guess someone saw the white belly and didn't check further. Wild T. m. mexicana have a pale belly and like other carotenoid based colors it often becomes even paler in captivity. The only European one I'm unsure about is at Plzen; I don't remember seeing it there. Real T. (m.) brasiliensis are dull blue and don't have turqoise on the shoulder (the turqoise is missing or can be momentarily hidden in some other races too, but no other race is the same dull blue as brasiliensis).

 

[vogelcommando]

As you probebly know it´s very difficult to get permission to export birds from Brazil and even in the time softbill-keeping was in it´s high-times ( around the 1980-ties ) very few -smuggeled - birds from Brazil came to Europe.
Tanagers are among my favorite birds I have kept privatly 6 different speecies and at the public collections I've worked at a further 10 species but from the species you mention I only have seen Tangara seledon, T. fastuosa and T. desmaresti - all for sale by several dealers but as I said this was in the late 1970-ties till mid-1980-ties.
A search in my archive resulted in the following -historical - breeding-succeses :
Tangara seledon Bred 1888 by mr. Ollivrey in France
Tangara fastuosa Should have been bred by mr. Delacour in France -no date and no further information. G. Detry in Belgium bred them during 1972
Tangara cyanocephala Mrs K.A. Scamell in the Uk bred it during 1967
Tangara desmaresti breeding attemp in Berlin Zoo in 1937
From all the other species I was unable to find any information about captive breeding
However, hope this helps you

 

[condor]

thanks, yes, Brazil now has quite tough laws regarding export of their wildlife (it should be added that their laws relating to this largely are based on similar laws in USA and northwest Europe). It appears the Brazilian endemic/near-endemic Tangara tanagers are all gone and won't come back. At least unless some local bird keepers manage to breed them in which case it might be possible to export? BTW, if people checked the species I listed in my last comment on zootierliste, beware that the photo of Tangara fastuosa is problematic too; it shows a ruffled Tangara cyanicollis.

 

[eduardo_Brazil]

Tanagers are not so common in captivity in Brazil too, there are just 2 breeders that can sell birds in Brazil and they only keep: Tangara seledon and many Cyanerpes species. One of them also keep some Euphonia species.

In Brazil people are also allowed to keep birds in a category called "Amateur Keeper" but only for certain species, keept in a amateur way, most in small cages, and only the more common Tanager species are allowed since the new law from 2008. Till 2008 even Tangara fastuosa was allowed and some amateurs had them in theier cages.

Zoos also dont have a big tradition in breed tanager, but many of them keep them in large aviaries but not specific to breed them, just display of confiscated birds.

We keep two pairs of Tangara peruviana and we are seriously working in try to breed them at the final of this year.

I dont think that in near future European collections will get tanagers from Brazil, because there are none avaiable. In meantime I think the last big importation of Tanagers from South America was made by Dallas World Aquarium and it seems the birds where imported from Peru.

 

[condor]

Thanks for information on the situation within Brazil. Good luck with breeding T.peruviana.
Dallas WA has Tangara that originate from north and central Andes (Peru/Ecuador/Colombia), Guyana/Suriname and Panama.