Straw-backed tanager

Straw-backed tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species: T. argyrofenges
Binomial name
Tangara argyrofenges
(Sclater & Salvin, 1876)

The straw-backed tanager (Tangara argyrofenges), also known as the green-throated tanager, is a species of bird in the tanager family. It is found in humid highland forests in the Andes of southernmost Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, but it is generally local and uncommon.

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