Blue-and-yellow tanager
| Blue-and-yellow tanager | |
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| Male of the black-backed nominate subspecies
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Rauenia Wolters, 1980 |
| Species: | R. bonariensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Rauenia bonariensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Non-Breeding Year-round
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| Synonyms | |
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Thraupis bonariensis | |
The blue-and-yellow tanager (Rauenia bonariensis) is a
Thraupidae
.
It is found in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, extreme northern border Chile, and
residents
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Its natural
montane forest, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland
, and heavily degraded former forest.
This species was formerly placed in the genus It was moved to Rauenia based on the study published in 2020. It is monotypic in that genus.
Gallery
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Males from the Andes, such as this individual from Ecuador, have a green back. -
A male Rauenia bonariensis darwinii, characterized by green upper back
_NW_Ecuador-8.jpg)
References
- . Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- PMID 24583021.
- PMID 27394344.
- Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
External links
- Photos, videos and observations at Cornell Lab of Ornithologys Birds of the World
- Stamps[usurped] (for Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) – with ~RangeMap
- Blue-and-yellow tanager photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Photo-High Res; Article Archived 2010-10-30 at the Wayback Machine incatrail-Peru – "Birds of Machu-Picchu"
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