Olive Tanager

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Olive Tanager
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Chlorothraupis
Species: C. carmioli
Binomial name
Chlorothraupis carmioli
(Lawrence, 1868)

The Olive Tanager (Chlorothraupis carmioli), also known as Carmiol's Tanager (but see taxonomic info further down), is a species of bird traditionally placed in the family Thraupidae, though some recent evidence suggest it is better placed in Cardinalidae.

It is often split into two species:

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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