Dotted tanager

Dotted tanager
Illustration from Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle (1765)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species: T. varia
Binomial name
Tangara varia
(Statius Müller, 1776)

The dotted tanager (Tangara varia) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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