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Yellow-winged Tanager

Thraupis abbas

Range & Recent Observations

Yellow-winged Tanageris a year-round resident and doesn't follow a migration flyway. See the Range tab for where it lives.

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About the Yellow-winged Tanager

The yellow-winged tanager (Thraupis abbas) is a neotropical member of the tanager family. It is of average size for a tanager, about 18-centimetre (7.1 in) long. It is distinguished by the yellow patches on its dusky green wings, marking an otherwise dark bluish and gray body. It has a pale lavender tone on its throat and breast. The juvenile lacks this color, but has an olive-green head and upper back.

Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Scientific name
Thraupis abbas
Family
Tanagers and Allies
Order
Passeriformes

Similar species

Other members of the tanagers and allies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.

  • Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi
  • Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
  • Black-faced Grassquit Melanospiza bicolor
  • Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
  • Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius
  • Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
  • Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
  • Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
  • Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
  • Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco
  • Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa baritula
  • Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis

Know when the Yellow-winged Tanager turns up near you

Add it to your watchlist and draw an alert zone around the places you actually bird. Birdr checks eBird reports and tells you when one is seen inside it.

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