Opal-crowned tanager
Species of bird
| Opal-crowned tanager | |
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Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Tangara |
| Species: | T. callophrys |
| Binomial name | |
| Tangara callophrys (Cabanis, 1849) [2] | |
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The opal-crowned tanager (Tangara callophrys) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is one of 49 species in the genus Tangara.
It is found in the eastern Andes drainages to the western Amazon Basin in southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and Peru and a region of northwestern Bolivia; for Brazil in southwestern-western Amazonas state and Acre.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Distribution
The opal-crowned tanager is found in one contiguous range centered on Amazonian eastern Peru-Ecuador, southeastern Colombia, and the very west of Amazonas state, Brazil; all of Acre state is included in the south with southern Peru, and a border region of extreme northwestern Bolivia.
A small disjunct population exists 100 km west in southern Colombia.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Tangara callophrys". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22722958A94795452. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722958A94795452.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Cabanis, 1849. H[ypothlypis] callophrys (protonym). Reisen Brit.-Guiana [Schomburgk], 3, p. 668, note. BHL
External links
- Opal-crowned Tanager photo gallery VIREO
- Photo-High Res; Article greenbackedheron—"Sacha Lodge", Ecuador
- Photo-High Res; Article wingsbirds.com—"Peru: The Northeast"
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