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Blue-gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus

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Field Notes

Description:

This tanager is 7 inches of mostly grayish blue, with brightest colors on rump and upperparts. Subspecies seems to vary in how much blue is found in the lighter parts. In at least one subspecies, the shoulder area is white.

Habitat:

From Eastern Mexico to eastern Peru (and one little area in western Peru), northern Bolivia, to Amazonian and northern Brazil, and from there to Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Guianas.

Notes:

Near Santa Fe Zoo, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

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Blue-gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus

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