Azure-shouldered tanager

Azure-shouldered tanager
In Morretes, Parana, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Thraupis
Species: T. cyanoptera
Binomial name
Thraupis cyanoptera
(Vieillot, 1817)

The azure-shouldered tanager (Thraupis cyanoptera) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Brazil and Paraguay.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

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