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Blue-grey Tanager
Sign in to saveAlso known as Thraupis episcopus, Blue-gray Tanager
species of medium-sized South American songbird
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- Thraupis episcopus
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- taxon common name
- sanhaço-da-amazónia
- short name
- T. episcopus
- taxon range
- South America
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Encyclopedic overview
Blue-gray tanager on an ornamental banana The blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. It has been introduced to Lima (Peru) and Florida (United States). On Trinidad and Tobago, this bird is called blue jean.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue-grey Tanager” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.