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