Opal-crowned tanager

Opal-crowned tanager
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Tangara
Species:	T. callophrys
Binomial name
Tangara callophrys (Cabanis, 1849) [2]
Synonyms
H[ypothlypis] callophrys (protonym)

The opal-crowned tanager (Tangara callophrys) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers. It is one of 49 species in the genus Tangara . It is found in the eastern Andes drainages to the western Amazon Basin in southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and Peru and a region of northwestern Bolivia; for Brazil in southwestern-western Amazonas state and Acre.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Distribution

The opal-crowned tanager is found in one contiguous range centered on Amazonian eastern Peru-Ecuador, southeastern Colombia, and the very west of Amazonas state, Brazil; all of Acre state is included in the south with southern Peru, and a border region of extreme northwestern Bolivia.

A small disjunct population exists 100 km west in southern Colombia.

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Tangara callophrys". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22722958A94795452. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722958A94795452.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Cabanis, 1849. H[ypothlypis] callophrys (protonym). Reisen Brit.-Guiana [Schomburgk], 3, p. 668, note. BHL

External links

• Opal-crowned Tanager photo gallery Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine VIREO
• Photo-High Res Archived 2007-08-16 at the Wayback Machine ; Article greenbackedheron—"Sacha Lodge", Ecuador
• Photo-High Res ^{[ permanent dead link ]}; Article Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine wingsbirds.com—"Peru: The Northeast"