Blue-winged mountain tanager

Blue-winged mountain tanager
In Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Anisognathus
Species:
A. somptuosus
Binomial name
Anisognathus somptuosus
(Lesson, 1831)
Synonyms

Anisognathus flavinucha (Lesson, 1831)[1]

The blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is found in highland forest and woodland in the Andes of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, as well as a disjunct population in the Venezuelan Coastal Range. It is a common species and its populations appear to be stable.[1] It is generally bright yellow and black with blue to the wings and tail; some populations have a moss-green back.[2] In Bolivia and southernmost Peru, the rump is blue and the voice is very different;[2] this population is sometimes recognized as a separate species, the Bolivian mountain tanager (A. flavinucha).[3]

Blue-winged mountain tanager in northwest Ecuador

References

  1. ^ a b c BirdLife International (2017). "Anisognathus somptuosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103845565A119447519. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103845565A119447519.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Ridgely, R.S.; G. Tudor (2009). Birds of South America, Passerines. p. 606. ISBN 978-1-408-11342-4.
  3. ^ Birdlife International (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Anisognathus flavinucha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103845698A119446484. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103845698A119446484.en. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
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