Beryl-spangled Tanager

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Beryl-spangled Tanager
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species: T. nigroviridis
Binomial name
Tangara nigroviridis
(Lafresnaye, 1843)

The Beryl-spangled Tanager (Tangara nigroviridis) is a colourful tanager of the Andean cloud forests.

Its range is from Venezuela to Bolivia. Its nest is a mossy cup in a tree fork; in Ecuador west slope, eggs in early March.

References

  • Robert Ridgely & Guy Tudor, Birds of South America Vol. 1 (Univ. Texas Press, 1989).


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