Beryl-spangled tanager

Beryl-spangled tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tangara
Species: T. nigroviridis
Binomial name
Tangara nigroviridis
(Lafresnaye, 1843)

The beryl-spangled tanager (Tangara nigroviridis) is a colourful tanager of the Andean cloud forests.

Its range is from Venezuela to Bolivia. Its nest is a mossy cup in a tree fork; in Ecuador west slope, eggs in early March.

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