Yellow-winged Tanager

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Yellow-winged Tanager
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Thraupis
Species: T. abbas
Binomial name
Thraupis abbas
(Deppe, 1830)

The Yellow-winged Tanager, Thraupis abbas, is a Neotropical member of the tanager family. It is distinguished by the yellow patches on its wings, marking an otherwise dark body. Like other members of the genus Thraupis, it is a species of open woodland. It feeds on fruit, insects, and nectar.