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Blue-gray tanager

Thraupis episcopus

Photo by Israel4
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Field Notes

Description:

The blue-gray tanager is 16–18 cm long and weighs 30–40 g. Adults have a light bluish head and underparts, with darker blue upperparts and a shoulder patch colored a different hue of blue. Sexes are similar, but the immature is much duller in plumage.

Habitat:

Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south.

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PublishedJanuary 2, 2022

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