Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thraupidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manu Road, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Aguas Calientes, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manu Road, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Ecuador
Status: The Blue-necked Tanager is common in montane forests of the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 800-2200 m. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Tangara de Cuello Azul.
Sub-species: Blue-necked Tanager (Stilpnia cyanicollis caeruleocephala), (Swainson), 1838. Colombia (head of Magdalena Valley in Huila, and E Andes in Boyacá and Cundinamarca and, on E slope, S to Nariño) S on E slope to N Peru (S to La Libertad and, Huallaga Valley, in N San Martín).
(Stilpnia cyanicollis cyanicollis), (d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye), 1837. E slope of Andes in Peru (from Huánuco) S to Bolivia (to Cochabamba).
Meaning of Name: Stilpnia: Gr. Stilpnos= glistening, glittering. cyanicollis: L. cyaneus= dark-blue, collis, collum= necked, throated.
Formerly known as Tangara cyanicollis (2018).

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.