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Blue-gray tanager
Thraupis episcopus
10.4573, -84.6482
Field Notes
Description:
The blue-gray tanager is 16–18 cm long. Adults have a light bluish head and underparts, with darker blue upperparts and a shoulder patch colored a different hue of blue. The bill is short and quite thick.
Habitat:
Arenal Volcano, La Fortuna.
The breeding habitat is open woodland, cultivated areas and gardens. The blue-gray tanager lives mainly on fruit, but will also take some nectar and insects.It thrives around human habitation, and will take some cultivated fruit like papayas. I think in this case the fruit as a guayaba fallen from a tree.
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Blue-gray tanager
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PublishedMay 28, 2014
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