Blue-capped tanager

Blue-capped tanager
In El Ávila National Park, Caracas, Venezuela
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Thraupis
Species: T. cyanocephala
Binomial name
Thraupis cyanocephala
(D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)

The blue-capped tanager (Thraupis cyanocephala) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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