Seven-coloured tanager

Seven-coloured tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species: T. fastuosa
Binomial name
Tangara fastuosa
Lesson, 1831

The seven-coloured tanager (Tangara fastuosa) is a vulnerable species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to forests in north-eastern Brazil. It resembles the overall greener green-headed tanager; a species confusingly known as the seven-coloured tanager (saíra-sete-cores) in Portuguese.

The Seven-colored tanager is a 13.5 cm bird named for the spectacular coloration of its feathers.[2]

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