Fawn-breasted tanager

Fawn-breasted tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Pipraeidea
Swainson, 1827
Species: P. melanonota
Binomial name
Pipraeidea melanonota
(Vieillot, 1819)

The fawn-breasted tanager (Pipraeidea melanonota) is a species of tanager. with a blue head and yellow breast. It is in the monotypic genus Pipraeidea. It occurs in the Andes of northwestern Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, as well as in the highlands of northeastern Argentina, south Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

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