Blue-and-yellow tanager

Blue-and-yellow tanager
Male of the black-backed nominate subspecies
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Pipraeidea
Species:	P. bonariensis
Binomial name
Pipraeidea bonariensis (Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms
Thraupis bonariensis

The blue-and-yellow tanager (Pipraeidea bonariensis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is found in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, extreme northern border Chile, and Andean Peru and Ecuador. Some southern region birds migrate northeastwards in the austral winter into eastern Bolivia and northeastern Argentina; also Paraguay where the birds are only migratory non-breeding residents. Males of the eastern nominate group have a black back, while the members of the western darwinii group have a green back. The latter has been considered a separate species, the Darwin's tanager (Pipraeidea darwinii).

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

References

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Thraupis bonariensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

External links

• Blue-and-yellow Tanager videos on the Internet Bird Collection
• Stamps (for Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) – with ~RangeMap
• Blue-and-yellow photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res--(Close-up)
• Photo-High Res; Article-(includes: other name: "Darwin's Tanager") – mangoverde
• Photo-High Res; Article incatrail-Peru – "Birds of Machu-Picchu"

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  Males from the Andes, such as this individual from Ecuador, have a green back.

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  A male Pipraeidea bonariensis darwinii, characterized by green upper back