Opal-crowned Tanager
Tangara callophrys
Blue-and-black tanager with a bright creamy-white crown and rump patches; otherwise deep blue with black patches from the tail to the head. Compared to the similar Opal-rumped Tanager, this species has a distinctive whitish crown and a blue (not reddish) belly; the latter can be helpful for identification from below as it moves through the canopy with mixed species tanager flocks.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Tangara callophrys
- Authority
- (Cabanis, 1849)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Genus
- Tangara
Range and habitat
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.<p>A small disjunct population exists 100 km west in southern Colombia.
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- declining
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Distribution
Bird Calls
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