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Blue-gray Tanager
Thraupis episcopus
10.5646, -84.8851
Field Notes
Description:
These two blue-gray tanagers were spotted fighting other birds off for their share of fruit at the Arenal Observatory, Arenal National Park, Costa Rica. These adults have a light bluish head and underparts, darker blue upperparts, and a shoulder patch in a different hue of blue well visible on the front bird.
Habitat:
Open woodland, cultivated areas and gardens. Distribution: from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. Introduced to Lima (Peru). Called Blue Jean in Trinidad and Tobago.
Notes:
These are a noisy and restless lot. They live mainly on fruit, and hence love the pieces of melon laid out by the park rangers.
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Blue-gray Tanager
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PublishedAugust 16, 2011
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