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Blue-gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus

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Description:

Small tanager, about 18 cm. consider common in all the neotropics, from Mexico to Brazil,(in Peru consider a different specie I will upload soon) .
this bird is very important as a seed dispersion, especially for gaps regeneration and secondary growth vegetation. this specimen commonly comes to my small garden to eat figs; just 1 km from downtown San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica

Habitat:

Open areas edges of forest and gardens

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PublishedOctober 16, 2018

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