Golden-backed Mountain-tanager

Golden-backed Mountain-tanager
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Buthraupis
Species: B. aureodorsalis
Binomial name
Buthraupis aureodorsalis
Blake & Hocking, 1974

The Golden-backed Mountain-tanager (Buthraupis aureodorsalis) is an endangered species of bird in the tanager family. This large and brightly coloured tanager is endemic to elfin forests in the Andean highlands of central Peru. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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