| Hooded Mountain-tanager | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Buthraupis |
| Species: | B. montana |
| Binomial name | |
| Buthraupis montana (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) |
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The Hooded Mountain-tanager (Buthraupis montana) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. This yellow, blue and black tanager is found in forest, woodland and shrub in the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. At 23 centimetres (9.1 in) and 85 grams (3.0 oz), it is one of the largest tanagers (second in weight only to the White-capped Tanager).