Flame-crested Tanager

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Flame-crested Tanager
Male in south-eastern Brazil
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tachyphonus
Species: T. cristatus
Binomial name
Tachyphonus cristatus
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
  • Tachyphonus nattereri

The Flame-crested Tanager (Tachyphonus cristatus) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

T. cristatus nattereri (above)

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